FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) — Frankfort police report that Simeyon Johnson was arrested on November 28 around 9:30 a.m. in Louisville by the United States Marshall Service and the Louisville Metro Police Department.
According to police, Johnson was arrested on a Franklin District Court warrant of arrest for the murder of Thomas F. Wideman on July 9, 2023.
No other information has been has been released.
Wideman’s daughter, Ashley Taylor, has been waiting 5 months for this day.
“It really just took my breath away,” Taylor said. “I was just thrilled, I just really thought the day would never come.”
She plans to be in court each and every day - explaining how important it is to get justice.
“I just pray that he gets the full sentence; that is my prayer,” Taylor said.
Taylor said she misses the regular conversations she had with her father. It’s why she so often listens to a voicemail recording he sent her a few months before his death. In it, she tells her he loves her.
Johnson is lodged in the Franklin County Detention Center.
