JOHNSON COUNTY —A woman involved in chase and deadly exchange of gunfire that left a Kansas police officer and suspect dead made a court appearance Tuesday
Angela Cothran, 32, Portland, Tennessee, was charged with aggravated battery, fleeing law enforcement, felony theft and reckless driving. She remains jailed on a $1 million bond, according to online jail records.
Just after 7:30 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a stolen vehicle call at the QuikTrip at 95th Street and Interstate 35, according to a media release from Lenexa Police.
Officers located that car and the suspect in the stolen vehicle struck one of Lenexa police department's patrol vehicles and drove away.
Police pursued the suspect northbound on Interstate 35 until the suspects left the vehicle and ran to a QuikTrip in the 4700 Block of Lamar Avenue in Mission.
Police from multiple agencies were trying to arrest the suspects when gunfire broke out. A suspect later identified as 40-year-old Shannon Wayne Marshall of Ashland City, Tennessee was shot and killed and Fairway Kansas police officer Jonah Oswald was shot, hospitalized and died on Monday.
The other suspect later identified as Cothran was arrested.
Officer Oswald, a 4-year-veteran of the Fairway, Kansas, police department, leaves behind a wife and two young children.
Cothran is listed on the Tennessee sex offender registry for a July 2019 conviction for solicitation to commit sexual exploitation of a minor. She has three previous convictions for child abuse and a probation violation for drugs, according to the Tennessee offender registry.