TOPEKA, Kan. — Attorneys representing former Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department Det. Roger Golubski told a federal judge Monday Golubski is dead.
Golubski was set to appear Monday morning at a federal courthouse in Topeka for the first day of his trial on a host of charges.
According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, around 9 a.m. Monday, Edwardsville police received a 911 call reporting a single gunshot from inside a home at 706 S. 9th Street in Edwardsville.
Responding officers found a deceased adult male, later identified as Golubski, 71, on the back porch with a fatal gunshot wound. The KBI says they have no indications of any foul play, but the investigation - to include an autopsy - remains ongoing.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Kate Brubacher of the District of Kansas released a joint statement Monday following Golubski's death.
"This matter involved extremely serious charges, and it is always difficult when a case is unable to be fully and fairly heard in a public trial and weighed and determined by a jury," the pair said in the statement. "The proceedings in this case may be over, but its lasting impact on all the individuals and families involved remains. We wish them peace and the opportunity for healing as they come to terms with this development and ask that they all be treated with response and their privacy respected."
KSHB 41's Charlie Keegan reports federal prosecutors and attorneys representing Golubski assembled around 11 a.m. Monday at a federal courtroom in Topeka.
Golubski's attorneys told the judge he was dead. Prosecutors told the judge they would move to dismiss the case as a result.
Court documents later confirmed the motion was granted and the case was dismissed.
Earlier Monday, KSHB 41 was at the federal courthouse in Topeka when one of Golubski’s attorneys told the judge, “I don’t have a client, your honor.”
The attorney told the judge that he spoke with Golubski Monday morning and that his client was “despondent” about media coverage of the trial.
The judge issued the arrest warrant for Golubski. As part of his release, Golubksi was required to wear a tracking device.
He was charged with six counts of deprivation of civil rights.
He was also charged with alleged involvement in a sex-trafficking ring.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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