On the evening of October 19, 2024, the life of Don Stovall, a 58-year-old White man, was ended by violence at his home in Manhattan, Kansas. At approximately 8:45 p.m., officers with the Riley County Police Department were called to the 700 block of North 4th Street for a reported shooting. They arrived to find Don Stovall in his detached garage, breathing but unconscious from a gunshot wound.
Emergency personnel transported him to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced deceased.
The investigation revealed a harrowing sequence of events. Stovall’s wife, Mary, told police that two men, later identified as Aiden Keener and Antwajuane McNeil, were in the garage with her husband. A third man, who said he had been beaten and forced to come along by the other two, remained inside the house with her. Mary reported hearing “pops” from the garage before seeing a red truck speed away. When she went to check, she found her husband on the floor and called 911.
The police investigation moved quickly. In the early morning hours after the shooting, officers executed a search warrant at a home on Saddlehorn Trail in the nearby town of Ogden. There, they arrested 20-year-old Aiden Shane Keener on probable cause for murder and kidnapping. A few days later, on October 23, a second search warrant was executed at a residence on Eighth Street, also in Ogden. This led to the arrest of the second suspect, 31-year-old Antwajuane Jerome McNeil, who faced charges including first-degree murder and kidnapping.
Antwajuane McNeil’s case proceeded to trial in Riley County District Court in November 2025. After a trial in which McNeil briefly chose to represent himself, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and 11 other charges, including two counts of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, battery, and criminal threat. The jury found him not guilty of one count of aggravated assault.
In December 2025, McNeil was sentenced to a lifetime term of imprisonment for the murder of Don Stovall, bringing the legal proceedings against him to a close.
