Overview
- Police found James “Uncle Jimmy” Dodds shot outside his Kansas City, Kansas, home Sunday evening; he was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead on Monday.
- Aaron Johnson, Mark Nash Jr. (Mark Elliott Nash) and Marquel McGhee, all 18, have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and are being held in Harvey County pending transfer to Wyandotte County.
- Investigators say Dodds was sitting in his car behind a Chevy Tahoe when he was hit, and his landlord reported a visible bullet hole in the Tahoe’s passenger side.
- KCK Police Chief Karl Oakman said some of Dodds’s family knew the suspects and that detectives are developing motive and building a case for prosecution while tying the killing to recent youth-violence enforcement.
- Dodds, 64, was a longtime local sports-radio figure and Wyandotte County Sheriff's Office employee whose colleagues issued public tributes, and his family is coping with immediate housing changes as the investigation continues.