A Sunday morning vehicle theft and interstate pursuit ended in a deadly shootout that claimed the life of 29-year-old Fairway Police Officer Jonah Oswald. Lenexa police first responded to a stolen vehicle; when officers located it the driver, later identified as 40-year-old Shannon Wayne Marshall of Ashland City, Tennessee, struck a patrol car and fled. The chase along Interstate 35 ended in Mission, Kansas, when the vehicle crashed near a QuikTrip and the two occupants ran into the store.

Officer Oswald, a four-year Fairway officer and U.S. Army Reserve veteran, was among those who converged on the scene. An exchange of gunfire occurred inside the QuikTrip. Officer Oswald was critically wounded and died at a hospital on August 7, 2023. Marshall was shot and killed at the scene; his passenger, 32-year-old Andrea Rene Cothran of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, was taken into custody and charged with aggravated battery, fleeing law enforcement, felony theft and later charged with murder in connection with Oswald’s death. The Johnson County Officer-Involved Critical Incident Investigation Team opened an investigation.

Oswald is remembered as warm-hearted and dedicated and leaves a wife and two young children. If anyone has information about the events at the QuikTrip that morning, please share what you know.