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~ Kevin Johnson, 29Nov22, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: October 26, 2022, 6:44 pm
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Missouri man fatally shoots 2 for the death of his girlfriend--
February 22nd, 2021
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A Missouri man was arrested early Monday and charged with
killing two people he believed killed his girlfriend.
Newton County deputies were investigating the death of
25-year-old Brylee O’Banion, whose body was found just after 4
p.m. Saturday in a ditch in Loma Linda.
According to Newton County Sheriff Ken Jennings, investigators
considered Mason McClure, 34, and Nicole Hodges, 34, “persons of
interest” in O’Banion’s murder, the Joplin Globe reported.
But at 5:30 Saturday afternoon, Jasper County deputies found
McClure and Hodges dead of multiple gunshot wounds at McClure’s
home in Avilla. Early Sunday morning, they arrested Kevin
Johnson, 24, for their deaths.
The Globe reported that Johnson — O’Banion’s boyfriend — was
charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of
armed criminal action.
According to The Turner Report, the probable cause statement
filed in the case against Johnson said that he had gone to
McClure’s home, where O’Banion also lived, to see her.
“When he arrived, he was told by Mason McClure that McClure and
Hodges had killed O’Banion,” the statement said. “At this time,
Johnson stated he was asked to go to the garage and help McClure
with something. Johnson drew a firearm he had taken from his
father’s residence and started shooting. McClure was shot in the
back and Hodges fell away bleeding. Hodges also died from her
wounds on scene.”
When he was arrested, Johnson allegedly admitted that he shot
and killed McClure and Hodges and told detectives he was
preparing to flee the state. An autopsy has been scheduled to
determine the cause of death for Brylee O’Banion, according to a
news release issued by the Newton County Sheriff’s Office.
Newton County deputies said that O’Banion’s cause of death has
not been confirmed, but an autopsy is being performed. They also
said investigators were looking at McClure and Hodges in
connection with her death because she was believed to have been
last seen in their company. They have not, however, indicated a
motive for the murder.
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Re: ~ Kevin Johnson, 29Nov22, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 27, 2022, 9:22 pm
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Gov. Parson says Kevin Johnson execution will go on as planned;
more people asking for clemency--
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. (KMOV) - For more than a decade, Kevin
Johnson has sat on death row for killing Kirkwood Police Sgt.
William McEntee.
As more people ask for clemency in Johnson’s case, Governor
Parson tells News 4 the execution will continue as planned.
Johnson is facing execution by lethal injection for killing Sgt.
McEntee in July of 2005.
Many are asking Governor Mike Parson to grant clemency, where
Johnson would spend the rest of his life in prison.
Governor Parson tells News 4 as far as his office is concerned,
this case will continue as planned.
“You got a guy who went over there cold blooded killed a police
officer by two shots in the head after he shot him multiple
times,” Governor Parson said. “It’s a pretty vicious crime.
Sometimes you have to answer the consequences to that.”
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Re: ~ Kevin Johnson, 29Nov22, (MO) ~
By: BuzzC Date: November 29, 2022, 8:47 pm
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Missouri Man Put to Death for Killing Police Officer in 2005--
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis
area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger
brother was executed Tuesday night.
Kevin Johnson, 37, died after an injection of pentobarbital at
the state prison in Bonne Terre. It was the state’s second
execution this year and the 17th nationally. Two more executions
are scheduled in Missouri for the first few weeks of 2023.
Johnson’s attorneys didn’t deny that he killed Officer William
McEntee in 2005, but contended he was sentenced to death in part
because he is Black. Courts and Republican Gov. Mike Parson
declined to stop the execution.
Johnson declined to make a final statement before the lethal
drug was administered.
In a first for modern executions in Missouri, Johnson was not in
the execution room alone. His spiritual advisor, the Rev. Darryl
Gray, sat at his side. The men spoke softly until the drug was
administered. Gray appeared to be reading from the Bible as
Johnson shut his eyes. Within seconds, all movement ceased.
Gray, a leading St. Louis racial injustice activist, continued
reading from the Bible or praying while patting Johnson’s
shoulder.
“We read scripture and had a word of prayer,” Gray said. “He
apologized again. He apologized to the victim’s family. He
apologized to his family. He said he was looking forward to
seeing his baby brother. And he said he was ready.”
McEntee, 43, was a 20-year veteran of the police department in
Kirkwood, a St. Louis suburb. A husband and father of three, he
was among the officers sent to Johnson’s home on July 5, 2005,
to serve a warrant for his arrest. Johnson was on probation for
assaulting his girlfriend, and police believed he had violated
probation.
Johnson saw officers arrive and awoke his 12-year-old brother,
Joseph “Bam Bam” Long, who ran to a house next door. Once there,
the boy, who suffered from a congenital heart defect, collapsed
and began having a seizure.
Johnson testified at trial that McEntee kept his mother from
entering the house to aid his brother, who died a short time
later at a hospital.
That evening, McEntee returned to the neighborhood to check on
unrelated reports of fireworks being shot off. A court filing
from the Missouri attorney general’s office said McEntee was in
his car questioning three children when Johnson shot him through
the open passenger-side window, striking the officer’s leg, head
and torso. A teenager was struck but survived. Johnson then got
into the car and took McEntee’s gun.
The court filing said Johnson walked down the street and told
his mother that McEntee “let my brother die” and “needs to see
what it feels like to die.” Though she told him, “That’s not
true,” Johnson returned to the shooting scene and found McEntee
alive, on his knees near the patrol car. Johnson shot McEntee in
the back and in the head, killing him.
Johnson’s lawyers previously asked the courts to intervene for
other reasons, including a history of mental illness and his age
— 19 — at the time of the crime. Courts have increasingly moved
away from sentencing teen offenders to death since the Supreme
Court in 2005 banned the execution of offenders who were younger
than 18 at the time of their crime.
But a broader focus of appeals alleged racial bias. In October,
St. Louis Circuit Judge Mary Elizabeth Ott appointed a special
prosecutor to review the case. The special prosecutor, E.E.
Keenan, filed a motion earlier this month to vacate the death
sentence, stating that race played a “decisive factor” in the
death sentence.
Ott declined to halt the execution, and appeals to the Missouri
Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme Court were turned aside.
Keenan’s court filing said former St. Louis County Prosecutor
Bob McCulloch’s office handled five cases involving the deaths
of police officers during his 28 years in office. McCulloch
sought the death penalty in the four cases involving Black
defendants, but did not seek death in the one case where the
defendant was white, the file said.
McCulloch’s father was a police officer killed in the line of
duty. McCulloch does not have a listed phone number and could
not be reached for comment.
Johnson’s 19-year-old daughter, Khorry Ramey, had sought to
witness the execution, but a state law prohibits anyone under 21
from observing the process. Courts declined to step in on
Ramey’s behalf.
The U.S. saw 98 executions in 1999 but the number has dropped
dramatically in recent years. Missouri already has two scheduled
for early 2023. Convicted killer Scott McLaughlin is scheduled
to die on Jan. 3, and convicted killer Leonard Taylor’s
execution is set for Feb. 7.
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