Todd Bryan Rehkop

How they died

Suicide

Todd Bryan Rehkop, who was suspected of sexual assaults, reportedly killed himself after a short standoff on I-70. At around 7:35 p.m., a woman reported that a man approached her outside Sam's Club on Conley Road in Columbia, pointed a gun at her and drove off after she screamed. At 11 p.m., a woman ran into a Conley Road Hyvee store after a man had forced her into the back seat of her other in the parking lot and sexually assaulted her. Both women described the man's truck as large and dark in color. About an hour later, Boonville police contacted Columbia police about a similar incident at a gas station. Police were able to get the license plate of the truck and passed the information on to law enforcement along the I-70/MO-63 corridor. At around 2 a.m., a Lafayette County sheriff's deputy saw the truck on I-70 and pulled the driver over. After a brief standoff with deputies, Rehkop reportedly shot himself in the head and died at the scene.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Todd Bryan Rehkop, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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