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Jon K. "Kelly" Ewing was convicted Friday of unintentional but reckless second-degree murder in the April 2021 death near Topeka of Deborah Stephens.

Women and girls made up an uncharacteristically high percentage of Topekas homicide victims in 2021.

Shawnee County District Judge Steven Ebberts on Thursday tentatively scheduled a hearing to be held at 3 p.m. June 9 regarding whether Jon K. Ewing is mentally competent to be tried on charges that include first-degree murder. Ebberts said he could decide that day whether to order a psychiatric evaluation for Ewing, 61, of Scranton. Ewing faces charges that include first-degree murder linked to the killing of his former girlfriend, 58-year-old Deborah Ann Stephens, who died April 27 at her...

Murder victim shared safety concerns on Facebook  Stephens had contended in past posts on her Facebook page that law enforcement officers and prosecutors did nothing after Ewing committed crimes that victimized her. "Im trying to figure out why Shawnee County Sheriff and our county attorney will not charge my ex boyfriend with the criminal damages to property," she wrote March 23. "Nor would they charge him with breaking into my home, attacking me from behind and beating me. Matter of fact, ...

The Shawnee County Sheriffs Office has arrested a man in connection with voluntary manslaughter linked to the death of a woman reported shortly before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at a mobile home in the unincorporated community of Pauline, just south of Topeka. Jon Kelly Ewing, 61, was booked at 1 a.m. Wednesday into the Shawnee County Jail, where he was being held on a $1 million bond Wednesday afternoon in connection with voluntary manslaughter committed upon a sudden quarrel or in the heat of pass...