A Kansas City woman accused in a 2020 fatal shooting barely had time to make the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list before she was behind bars.
KaShawn Nicola Roper, 50, was added to the bureau’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on April 14 and arrested the next day in Florida. The arrest was made at about 10:30 a.m. local time on April 15, less than 24 hours after the FBI announced a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to her capture.
However, Roper had been a fugitive for nearly six years before the FBI added her to the most wanted list.
On August 23, 2020, investigators say she fired multiple shots into an occupied car in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 23-year-old mother Jazmyn Henrion and wounding a second woman. She was charged that September with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon, but fled before she could be arrested. A federal warrant for “unlawful flight to avoid prosecution” was then issued in July 2021 after investigators found that she had left Missouri immediately after the shooting.
Though Roper was born in Kansas and lived in Kansas City, the FBI said she had ties to several states, including Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota, making her nearly six years on the run difficult to track. She was also considered armed and dangerous during that time.
The case moved quickly once tips began coming in.
After Tuesday’s announcement, tips began coming in to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center. Several people called after spotting a woman matching Roper’s description loading items into a car in the High Springs area. Law enforcement officers then located and arrested her without incident.
“From the moment we received information that Roper may be in our area, we surged into action, working in lockstep with our law enforcement partners to quickly track, locate, and apprehend her,” said FBI Jacksonville Special Agent in Charge Jason Carley.”Given the serious and dangerous nature of her alleged crimes, her presence in the community posed an ongoing threat that we could not ignore.”
Roper was booked into the Alachua County Jail on state murder charges and is expected to be extradited to Missouri to face the full slate of charges against her. Her arrest was the 502nd capture in the history of the Ten Most Wanted program and the 164th resulting from a public tip, according to the FBI.
FBI Director Kash Patel said Roper’s arrest was the eighth Ten Most Wanted fugitive captured in just over a year, double the number captured during the previous four-year period. “This is an example of how the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list is supposed to work: public awareness, information, and quick coordination work between partners,” Patel wrote.
Who Else From The Most Wanted List Has Been Caught In 2026?
The FBI’s Most Wanted list has already led to several notable captures in 2026:
- Samuel Ramirez Jr. holds the record for the shortest time ever spent on the Ten Most Wanted list. The Washington state double-murder suspect was added on March 10, 2026, and apprehended in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico just one hour and 13 minutes later – shattering the previous record set in 1969. He faces charges in King County for the 2023 shooting deaths of two women.
- Alejandro Rosales Castillo, who had been on the list since 2017 for the murder of a 23-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina woman, was captured in Pachuca, Mexico on January 16, 2026, after nearly nine years as a fugitive.
- Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder wanted on drug trafficking and conspiracy charges, was also arrested in Mexico earlier this year, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Roper’s arrest marked another quick turnaround for the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted program, which officials say continues to rely heavily on public awareness and tips.
