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The Kansas Attorney General’s Office has filed a complaint against a Parsons man nearly five years after Tyjuan M. Campbell was murdered in Parsons.
Raymond Alfonso Anthony Rigazio, 27, who is awaiting sentencing in Labette County District Court for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, is now facing a charge of first-degree murder, an off-grid felony, and distribution of marijuana. Off-grid felonies can be punished by up to life in prison.
Rigazio, who is free on bond in the pending drug case, is accused in the shooting death of Tyjuan Maurice Campbell, 21, of Pittsburg.
Campbell was found dead on June 20, 2018, in an apartment at Mendota Creek Apartments.
Police were called late that afternoon to 2612 Kimball on a report of a dead man in the apartment. Police found Campbell inside. An autopsy determined his death was a homicide. The Parsons police chief at the time said Campbell died of a gunshot wound. He said more than one round had been fired.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has been working with Parsons police since then but updates have been few in the years since other than to say the case was still under investigation, a fact that has frustrated the family, who continued to contact the attorney general’s office to seek updates.
Besides Rigazio’s, no other complaints have been filed in the Campbell investigation. Rigazio was charged on Friday in Labette County District Court.
In November 2022, Rigazio pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of possession with intent to distribute 25 grams or less of marijuana. He’s agreed to serve 42 months in prison on the case. The assistant county attorney agreed to allow Rigazio’s bond to be reinstated after that plea and Rigazio was released from jail on Nov. 28. He had been in jail about seven days after his arrest for failure to appear for the pending criminal cases. The original charge alleged the distribution of marijuana, a high-level drug felony. Deputies and police found 11.14 pounds of marijuana in Rigazio’s home as well as a .40-caliber handgun. He faced a maximum of about 11 years in prison on the charge had he been convicted of it.
Two other felony cases were dismissed as part of the November plea. One alleged distribution of 230 grams of marijuana in September 2017 and the other related to a December 2021 vehicle crash of Rigazio’s leased car when police found a 9 mm Glock pistol in his possession with a 30-round magazine.
Rigazio is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 6 for the drug case.
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