Two Kansas City men were sentenced Friday on felony charges stemming from a January 2024 gun fight inside the Crown Center Shops that injured six people.

Brian Favela, 23, and Joel Olivas, 24, were convicted of two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action, as well as three counts of second-degree harassment.

Judge Margene Burnett dismissed additional charges of unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action, saying there was insufficient evidence to convict them under Missouri’s self-defense laws.

Favela and Olivas, who prosecutors said are East Side gang members, will be sentenced on Dec. 12.

Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said her office will hold people accountable for such violence, despite Missouri’s loose gun laws.

“Today’s verdict indicates a level of accountability that this office will seek for individuals who engage in this type of insidious behavior, even when defendants are armored with Missouri’s very generous self-defense laws,” Baker. said in a statement.

The shootings on January 17 were caused by an argument between two groups of teenagers, Kansas City police said at the time. In addition to six people injured, some businesses were damaged on the lower level of the Crown Center.