Mickel Cherry, 27, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences on charges of first-degree murder and rape of an individual under the age of 14 by a person over the age of 18. Shawnee County ...

A Shawnee County judge has delivered the prison sentence for a man who raped and killed a five-year-old Topeka girl in 2023. The judge sentenced Mickel Cherry, 27, of Topeka ...

Mickel Cherry pleaded guilty Friday to two crimes linked to the October 2023 southeast Topeka killing of 5-year-old Zoey Felix, with those being first-degree murder in the commission of an ...

Saying Mickel Wayne Cherry alone is responsible for the manner in which he raped and killed 5-year-old Zoey Felix, a Shawnee County District Court judge sentenced him July 15 to life imprisonment ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Mickel Cherry has been sentenced to consecutive life sentences in the 2023 murder of 5-year-old Zoey Felix in southeast Topeka. The sentence was handed down late Tuesday ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Mickel Cherry was due back in Shawnee County District Court on Monday afternoon for his sentencing in the rape and murder of 5-year-old Zoey Felix in 2023.

Prosecutors said Mickel Cherry, 26, admitted under questioning to suffocating Zoey Felix in October 2023 with a pillow in a tent at the camp in Topeka when he was alone with the girl. Doctors who ...

More The State of Kansas vs. Mickel Cherry trial takes place at the Shawnee County Courthouse on July 14, 2025. POOL PHOTOGRAPHY BY EVERT NELSON/THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL/USA TODAY NETWORK More ...

Shawnee County, Kan., District Attorney Mike Kagay speaks to reporters about 26-year-old Mickel Cherry’s plea of guilty to first-degree murder and rape in connection with the death of a 5-year ...

Prosecutors said Mickel Cherry, 26, admitted under questioning to suffocating Zoey Felix in October 2023 with a pillow in a tent at the camp in Topeka when he was alone with the girl.