Sikeston man found guilty of 2019 murder in Jackson County, IL
JACKSON COUNTY, Ill. (KBSI) – A Sikeston man was found guilty of first-degree murder Monday after a jury trial in Jackson County, Illinois.
Tyren Jawan Johnson, 25, of Sikeston, Missouri, was found guilty of first-degree murder on Monday, October 23 following a jury trial in Jackson County, Illinois, according to Jackson County State’s Attorney Joseph A. Cervantez.
The jury trial lasted more than a week. Jackson County State’s Attorney Joseph A. Cervantez presented evidence to a crowded courtroom that on November 3, 2019, Carbondale police were dispatched to the 500 block of South Illinois Avenue for a complaint of shots fired.
Keon Cooper was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale where he was pronounced dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
Carbondale Police investigators identified the shooters as 21-year-old Tyren Johnson and 24-year-old Olando Sheron, both of Sikeston, Missouri.
The Carbondale Police Department obtained arrest warrants for Johnson and Sheron.
Johnson was arrested on November 7, 2019 on an Illinois warrant by the Sikeston Department of Public Safety.
Olando Sheron evaded law enforcement for nearly two years. He was arrested after a dangerous car chase in Gardena,
California.
Sheron was found guilty of first-degree murder on Friday, December 9, 2022 by a Jackson County, Illinois jury.
Johnson faces a sentence between 45 years and natural life in the Illinois Department of Corrections for the murder of Keon Cooper.
The investigation was led by the Carbondale Police Department and assisted by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office, Southern Illinois University Department of Public Safety, Sikeston Department of Public Safety, and the US Marshal’s Service among others.
