A federal judge dismissed the case against former Kansas City, Kan., police officer Roger Golubski after prosecutors confirmed Golubski had died, apparently by suicide. Jury selection was set to begin Monday, reports the Kansas City Star. Golubski died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On Monday afternoon, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said it is investigating Golubski’s death in his home. Golubski, who worked in the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department from 1975 to 2010, faced six felony charges related to the sexual abuse of two women, one of whom was 13 years old when the alleged abuse began. The government was set to call to the stand as many as nine women who say Golubski raped, stalked or attempted to assault them.
Both women Golubski allegedly abused in connection with the federal charges were set to testify to instances of rape and sexual misconduct during the 1990s and early 2000s. Ophelia Williams alleged that Golubski sexually assaulted her in 1999 when he was investigating her 14-year-old sons in connection to a double homicide. Prosecutors had planned to call on up to seven other women who alleged assaults by Goluibski between 1983 and 2004, showing a pattern of targeting vulnerable Black women and girls. One of the women met Golubski, a longtime detective, when he was assigned to investigate her husband’s murder. Lamonte McIntyre had hoped that Golubski’s trial would shed light on what he described as a corrupt system that had allowed Golubski to commit buses for so many years. “This is not justice,” said McIntyre, who in 1994 was wrongly accused and spent 23 years in prison for a double-murder he never committed. "Him killing himself is not justice. That’s him avoiding it."
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