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A man from Overland Park was sentenced to life for the 2019 murder of an Olathe teenager.
A Johnson County judge last week sentenced Matthew Bibee, 22, to two consecutive life terms for first-degree murder and attempted capital murder.
Bibee was also convicted concurrently of several other felonies, including aggravated robbery and battery of a law enforcement officer.
He will become eligible for parole in 50 years.
A jury in November convicted Bibee of the murder of 17-year-old Rowan Padgett, who was shot and killed in March 2019.
Court records show that Bibee, who was 18 at the time, arranged for Padgett to buy Xanax and that Padgett was killed after the deal fell through.
Two days after Padgett was killed, Bibee was wounded in a shootout with police and was taken into custody.
Two other teenagers have already been convicted in connection with Padgett’s death and the drug trafficking that preceded it.
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- Theater chain based in Leawood AMC entertainment compiled Forbes’ annual ranking of the top large employers in the United States, ranking it 347th out of 500 companies. [Forbes]
- Accounting firm based in Kansas City MarksNelson is moving its headquarters to a building near 115th Street in Overland Park. [Kansas City Business Journal]
- Johnson County motor vehicle offices in Mission and Olathe will be closed today, along with the County Clerk and Records Registry services in the County Courthouse, for employee training. [Johnson County]
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