INDEPENDENCE, Kan. — A 20-year-old Coffeyville man has been sentenced in the shooting death of a woman in southeast Kansas.
The Kansas Attorney General’s office said Benjamin Mason was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 25 years. He pleaded no contest in December to first-degree murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Kimberly Meeks.
Investigators say Meeks was killed on Dec. 14, 2019, while walking with another man along Main Street in Independence.
