FBI Adds KaShawn Roper to Ten Most Wanted

0:00It's April 14th, I'm Corey with The Story, and this is Kansas News Today, your AI-powered local news. The FBI just added 50-year-old Kashan Nikola Roper to their 10 most wanted fugitives list for her role in a 2020 Kansas City homicide. She's accused in the August 23rd shooting that killed 23-year-old Jasmine and Rian and wounded another woman near 68th Street, and Cleveland Avenue. Roper faces second-degree murder charges plus weapons counts, and she's been dodging a federal warrant since 2021. She's been on the run ever since the shooting, fleeing right after detectives pegged her as the suspect, 18 days later. Earlier this week, FBI leaders in Kansas City held a press conference with local police and the county prosecutor to make the announcement stressing, they never forget cases like this. Authorities are offering up to $1 million for tips leading to her arrest and conviction call, 800-call-FBI or hit-tips.fbi.gov. Kansas City Police Chief and the prosecutor talked about reassuring the victim's family

1:01after nearly five years, calling out how fugitives like her, keep communities at risk every day they're free. Roper stands five foot five inches tall, weighs about 120 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, tattoos on her arms, calf, neck, and abdomen plus pierced ears. She has ties to Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, Georgia, and South Dakota. She'll consider her armed and dangerous. This March the 13th woman and second from Kansas City on the list since 1950 and with public tips helping catch over 300. Others, officials are betting she'll be in cuffs soon. Texas doesn't sleep on these streets.