Happy Tuesday, Shawnee Mission!
☁️ Today’s forecast: Mostly cloudy with a 30% chance for rain. High: 70. Low: 53.
🚨 One thing to know today
A St. Louis man has entered a plea of no contest in connection to a nearly 40-year-old murder case in Roeland Park.
Johnson County prosecutors say Geter Rhymes, 67, entered the plea on Thursday for one count of second degree murder for the 1985 killing of Gary Watson.
Rhymes’ sentencing is now set for July 14.
Watson, 29, was found stabbed to death at his apartment on Skyline Drive in Roeland Park on March 13, 1985.
Police at the time interviewed more than 200 people and followed 92 leads, including some in the St. Louis area, in a search for three men who had been seen at the complex around the time of the murder.
Investigators took a new look at the case starting in 2020, reexamining evidence and conducting new interviews.
Rhymes was arrested in St. Louis in April 2021.
At the time of Rhymes’ arrest, Gary Watson’s sister, Audrey Walker, remembered her brother as a loving father and a “mama’s boy” who loved watching the NBA and who had a caring and compassionate spirit.
🗓 Public meetings Tuesday
- Lenexa City Council, 7 p.m. [View agenda]
🚀 Post’s top Monday stories
- Teen driver in custody after deadly Shawnee wreck
- JoCo Notes: Missouri man charged in JoCo for making threat against radio host
- Kansas’ first Buffalo Wild Wings Go coming to Shawnee this summer
- 🔎 5 to Try: What are the best restaurant hidden gems in JoCo?
- Overland Park Sears store, the last in KC area, closing soon
📰 Other local news
- A house fire near I-635 in northern Overland Park left behind serious fire and smoke damage. [KCTV]
- An Arizona man will serve more than 3 years in prison and be required to pay $550,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to defrauding two Johnson County, Kansas, residents. [KSHB]
- A Johnson County judge is requiring Jackson Mahomes, younger brother of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, to appear in person in court this week in order to request he be able to contact witnesses in his ongoing sexual battery case. [Kansas City Star]
📸 A thousand words
Prairie Village Police officers conducted a ceremony in honor of Peace Officers Memorial Day on Monday morning. Photo credit Juliana Garcia.
