The sentence runs alongside a 23-year term imposed in a separate case involving a fatal convenience-store shooting weeks later.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An 18-year-old Kansas City man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a 2025 armed robbery at a Waffle House, adding a second lengthy prison term after he previously pleaded guilty in a separate case involving the fatal shooting and robbery of a 23-year-old man at a convenience store.

Undrellius K. Fleck received the 30-year sentence in Clay County after pleading guilty to first-degree robbery, according to court records and local reporting. The punishment stems from an Aug. 21, 2025, confrontation in which a man fled from an armed pursuer into a Waffle House in Kansas City, North, and surrendered his cellphone after Fleck followed him inside. The Clay County term was ordered to run concurrently with a 23-year Jackson County sentence imposed May 28 for Fleck’s role in the Sept. 6, 2025, killing of Kenneth Hutt. Because the sentences run concurrently, the two terms are served at the same time rather than one after the other.

The Clay County case brought another stage of Fleck’s prosecution to a close nearly a year after the Waffle House robbery. Judge Shane T. Alexander imposed the sentence after Fleck pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree robbery, according to The Kansas City Star. A separate armed criminal action count was dismissed as part of the disposition reported by the newspaper. KCTV, citing Clay County Prosecutor Zachary Thompson, reported that Fleck was convicted July 15. The case had originally proceeded through the juvenile system before Fleck was certified to face the charge as an adult. The 30-year term is longer on paper than the 23-year sentence in Jackson County, but the concurrent order means the terms do not simply add up to 53 years.

The robbery began shortly after 10:20 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Waffle House at 4404 N. Antioch Road, according to court records cited by local news organizations. A man who had been at the restaurant with his ex-girlfriend followed her outside after she left. Investigators said Fleck then ran toward the man while carrying a handgun. The man retreated into the restaurant, jumped over the counter and moved behind a waitress. Fleck followed him inside. Prosecutors said he pointed a black handgun equipped with a light at the victim and demanded his cellphone. Court records quoted by KCTV documented short commands for the man to hand over the phone quickly and included a threat to shoot.

The waitress was also placed in danger during the encounter, according to the accounts given to investigators. KCTV reported that she said the weapon’s light was visible across her chest as the gun was pointed toward her. She later told police she believed she was going to die. The man ultimately gave up his cellphone, and Fleck left the restaurant. No one was physically injured in the robbery. Investigators had surveillance footage from the restaurant, and authorities said the waitress identified Fleck in a photo lineup. Those pieces of evidence helped support the Clay County case without requiring prosecutors to rely on a single account of what happened inside the restaurant.

Investigators also examined a connection involving the robbery victim’s ex-girlfriend. According to KCTV and court records, Kansas City police had stopped her gray Nissan Altima the day before the Waffle House robbery. During that traffic stop, she was on the phone and told officers she was speaking with her boyfriend, identified in the records as Fleck. Authorities later cited that information as part of their investigation. The detail was significant because a gray Nissan also appeared in records from the later Jackson County homicide investigation, although the public records reviewed for this story do not establish that every reference to a gray Nissan involved the same vehicle. Investigators relied on multiple leads rather than that detail alone.

Sixteen days after the Waffle House robbery, Kansas City police responded to a fatal shooting at a convenience store in south Kansas City. The Jackson County probable cause statement says officers were dispatched at about 11:25 p.m. Sept. 6 and found a man inside the business suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Fire personnel confirmed that he had died. Local reporting later identified the victim as 23-year-old Kenneth Hutt. Crime scene technicians collected numerous shell casings, and detectives recovered surveillance video from the business. Those records became the basis for charges filed months later against Fleck and Jordan A. Vasquez, another defendant in the case.

The surveillance account in the probable cause statement lays out the sequence leading to Hutt’s death. Detectives said Fleck and another man arrived in a gray Nissan, went into the store, purchased items and returned toward the vehicle. Hutt arrived several minutes later and entered the business with what appeared on video to be a pistol under his arm. Investigators said Fleck and the other man then went back inside while looking toward Hutt. The statement alleges that the second man moved toward Hutt and tried to take his firearm. As Hutt tried to retain it, Fleck raised another gun and fired. Hutt fell, and investigators said Fleck picked up Hutt’s gun before both men fled.

Police also described the firearm Fleck was carrying as a Glock-style pistol with a drum magazine and a part that investigators believed could be a machine-gun conversion device, commonly called a switch. The probable cause statement said the gunfire seen on surveillance appeared to be fully automatic. That description came from investigators reviewing the video and was part of the evidence supporting the criminal charges. Prosecutors initially charged Fleck with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action in connection with the shooting. A charging document is an accusation, but Fleck later resolved his own case by pleading guilty, removing the presumption-of-innocence issue as to the offenses covered by that plea.

Investigators took Fleck into custody three days after the shooting. The probable cause statement says officers following the gray Nissan conducted a vehicle check near Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Forest Avenue on Sept. 9. Fleck got out and ran but was apprehended, according to the document, and was taken to juvenile detention. His case did not immediately proceed in adult criminal court. Jackson County records say he was certified through the juvenile courts as an adult on Dec. 18, one day before prosecutors publicly announced charges against him and Vasquez. A judge initially set cash-only bonds of $500,000 for both defendants.

Fleck pleaded guilty in the Jackson County case in February 2026 and was sentenced May 28 to 23 years in prison, according to the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office and KCTV. The prosecutor’s office says Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Devon Tarantino handled the case for the state. The public update does not say that Vasquez’s case has been resolved. Instead, the prosecutor’s office continues to list a February 2027 trial for Vasquez. His charges remain allegations unless and until he pleads guilty or is convicted. The differing procedural positions of the two defendants are important because Fleck’s guilty plea and sentence cannot be treated as a finding of guilt against another person charged in the same episode.

The later Clay County sentence means Fleck now has final prison terms tied to two violent incidents in two Missouri counties that occurred a little more than two weeks apart. The Waffle House case involved a cellphone taken at gunpoint and ended without physical injury. The Jackson County case involved Hutt’s death and the taking of his firearm. Both prosecutions ultimately resulted in prison sentences for Fleck after the cases passed through juvenile-to-adult certification procedures. The Clay County judge’s decision to make the 30-year robbery sentence concurrent with the 23-year Jackson County term determines how those two Missouri sentences operate in relation to one another, rather than treating them as consecutive periods of incarceration.

KCTV also reported in July that Fleck faced separate identity theft, burglary and theft allegations in Johnson County, Kansas. Those matters are distinct from the Missouri convictions, and the available reporting did not establish a final disposition in those cases. The most recent Jackson County prosecutor update reviewed for this story continues to list Fleck as sentenced to 23 years and Vasquez for a February 2027 trial. Fleck’s 30-year Clay County robbery sentence remains ordered to run concurrently with his Jackson County sentence.

Author note: Last updated Aug. 23, 2026.