During his first appearance hearing on Friday, Cortez Tyrell Timley, 27, heard a Shawnee County District judge tell him he was being charged with the shooting death four years ago of Geovani Plakio, 19.
When Timley asked whether the Plakio case was the result of a Shawnee County grand jury indictment, District Judge William Ossmann told him the criminal complaint was filed by the district attorney’s office as part of its cold-case initiative.
Plakio’s slaying is the second pending murder charge that Timley faces.
Ossmann ...