Missouri Highway Cleanup Tribute Cancelled After 'Rockhead' Cop Killer

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For several months last year, a sign on Interstate 44 near Kirkwood in St. Louis County told motorists they were driving on a highway where litter cleanup was done to honor Kevin “Rockhead” Johnson.

The sign was up for approximately four months before a motorist recognized the name as a man executed by the state in November 2022 for the killing of Kirkwood Police Sergeant William McEntee in 2005. A social media post sparked outrage and news stories.

“We immediately took the sign down and suspended the program,” Ed Hassinger, deputy director of MoDOT, said Thursday to the House Transportation Accountability Committee.

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The Missouri Adopt-a-Highway program was suspended last year after MoDOT approved an application from the family of a man executed for killing a police officer.