Longtime Leoti residents will remember the night of May 25, 1976, when Leoti Police Chief Carl A. Simons was senselessly murdered in the line of duty by a convicted felon, Richard M. McCowan.
On December 15, 1975, the Wichita County resident had pled guilty to a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm, a class D felony, to which he was sentenced to 1-5 years incarceration at the st...
