Coffeyville man sentenced to life in prison for 2019 murder
A man from Coffeyville, Kansas, has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years for first-degree murder in a 2019 shooting death in southeast Kansas.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced that 20-year-old Benjamin J. Mason II was sentenced in Montgomery County District Court by Judge F. William Cullins on one count of first-degree murder.
Mason pleaded no contest to the charges on December 20, 2021, for his role in the 2019 shooting death of Kimberly Meeks in Independence.
The case was investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Independence Police Department, Montgomery County Sheriff and U.S. Postal Inspectors.
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