Month: August 2019

A woman connected with a shooting suspect in Tuesday’s case has been found dead in Arkansas, according to authorities.

Charles R. Pearson shot at police at Village West Parkway and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, on Tuesday and police returned fire, killing him. Before the incident, he told a hotel manager that he had killed his wife.

Overland Park police today said that his wife’s body was found in Benton County, Arkansas. They discovered a note written by Pearson about the location of the body. Police do not suspect anyone else in the case. His wife, Sylvia Ussery-Pearson, had moved out of their Lenexa home and into a residence in Overland Park.

Overland Park police said that Pearson was a retired 21-year veteran of the Army, an Army Ranger who served two combat tours in Iraq.

Police have identified the 17-year-old male who died after a shooting Tuesday night on Parallel between 38th and 18th streets.

The victim was Jo’Shawn Garrett, 17, a resident of Kansas City, Kansas, according to police.

He was riding in the back seat of a vehicle that was eastbound on Parallel between 38th and 18th streets, according to police.

There also was an adult male who was shot while riding in the same vehicle. He told police that the vehicle was shot at by unknown suspects from another vehicle while the victims were traveling east on Parallel.

The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.