Suspect pleads to first degree murder

A guilty plea was entered by Mark G. Hopkins II, to two counts of first-degree premeditated murder for the deaths of 27-year-old Blaze Swank, of rural Scammon and Kylan Shook, 20, of Pittsburg in 2020, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. Hopkins, 30, of Columbus, entered a guilty plea Wednesday in Cherokee County District Court. Senior Judge Robert Fleming accepted the plea on…