50 Years Ago, Leoti’s Chief of Police was Murdered in the Line of Duty

May 25, 1976, by all accounts, was just another late-spring day in Western Kansas. But, for at least one family in Wichita County, it wouldn’t stay that way.

That night, the Simons family would lose their husband and father, the trajectory of a normal life, and their sense of carefree safety.

That night, there would be “trouble up North!”

Chief Simons had received notice of a pickup warrant for the a…