KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Johnson County, Missouri, Fire Protection District reports one person died in an overnight fire in rural Johnson County.

Crews responded around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday to a fully engulfed mobile home southeast of Warrensburg after a neighbor called 911 to report the blaze.

Only burning remnants remained of the double-wide when firefighters arrived near SE 350 Road east of Missouri Route 13.

“At the time of the initial report, the structure had already burned to the ground. It appears the residence was burning for some time before anyone noticed,” Johnson County Fire District Capt. Joe Jennings said in a news release.

Shortly after firefighters began battling the blaze, an “unidentified deceased individual” was located.

The Johnson County coroner is working to identify the victim.

Capt. Jennings said firefighters were unable to “determine if there were or were not smoke alarms in the home due to the amount of fire loss.”

Investigation into the fire is ongoing by the fire protection district’s investigative unit and the Missouri State Fire Marshal.

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Christopher Leroy Collings was executed in Missouri on Tuesday for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl.

Collings, 49, died by lethal injection at 6:10 p.m. CST at the Potosi Correctional Center in Bonne Terre.

“Right or wrong I accept this situation for what it is,” Collings said in a written final statement. “To anyone that I have hurt in this life I am sorry. I hope that you are able to get closure and move on.”

Collings is the 23rd inmate to be executed in the U.S. this year and the fourth in the state of Missouri.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant a stay of execution on Monday.

“Mr. Collings has received every protection afforded by the Missouri and United States Constitutions, and Mr. Collings’ conviction and sentence remain for his horrendous and callous crime,” Governor Michael Parson said in a statement on Monday. “The State of Missouri will carry out Mr. Collings’ sentence according to the Court’s order and deliver justice.”

In 2007, Collings kidnapped Rowan Ford, the 9-year-old stepdaughter of one of his friends, according to court records. He was found guilty of raping the child and strangling her with chicken wire.

Collings has said that he did not intend to kill Ford, but he panicked when she recognized him. He had lived with her family for several months that year.

Ford’s body was found in a cave about a week after her disappearance. An autopsy ruled that she died due to strangulation.

Ford’s stepfather, David Wesley Spears, was also charged with rape and murder related to the incident. He had confessed to sexually assaulting and killing Ford, but Collings denied his involvement.

Prosecutors withdrew the murder charge in 2012.

Spears accepted a plea deal, agreeing to plead guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and hindrance of prosecution. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison and released in 2015.

“I am so proud of the girl that she was turning out to be,” Rowan’s older sister, Ariane Macks, Ford’s sister, told USA TODAY. “A part of me died when my sister died. I did lose my ray of sunshine.”

Macks said Collings deserved to be sentenced to death for killing Ford.

“I wanted him dead, I still do…but they could have done something better than lethal injection because he’s going out easy,” she said. “I cannot even imagine the pain when [Rowan] was strangled. Chris being so tall and so big [compared] to my little sister, she didn’t have a fighting chance.”

In Colling’s clemency petition, his attorneys said he suffered from a brain abnormality that caused “functional deficits in awareness, judgment and deliberation, comportment, appropriate social inhibition, and emotional regulation” and he experienced abuse as a child. Parson denied the petition.

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Four-star offensive tackle Lamont Rogers committed to Texas A&M Tuesday morning, he announced on social media, landing with Aggies one day after the No. 24 prospect in the 2025 ESPN 300 pulled his pledge from Missouri.

Rogers, the 6-foot-7, 310-pound lineman, is ESPN’s No. 7 offensive tackle prospect in the 2025 class. Committed to Missouri since July, Rogers reopened his recruitment Monday and now stands as the top prospect in Texas A&M’s 2025 class. He joins the Aggies as the program’s 13th ESPN 300 pledge less than 24 hours before the start of the three-day early signing period on Wednesday.

Texas A&M was a finalist for Rogers alongside Texas and Oklahoma when the three-year starter from Horn High School (Mesquite, Texas) gave his pledge to Missouri in July. But Rogers’ recruitment remained fluid through the fall and he took at least four trips to Texas A&M following his commitment to the Tigers, including a visit to the Aggies in Week 14 for the program’s 17-7 loss to Texas on Saturday.

Rogers lands with Texas A&M as the Aggies’ third top-100 pledge at the end of coach Mike Elko’s first full recruiting cycle with the program alongside four-star cornerback Adonyss Currie (No. 55 in the ESPN 300) and outside linebacker Noah Mikhail (No. 64) atop the nation’s 11th-ranked class.

Rogers marks a key pre-early-signing period addition for Texas A&M as the Aggies’ lone ESPN 300 offensive line commit in 2025. But the program is set to sign a deep in-state offensive line class in this cycle with pledges from three-star tackles Marcus Garcia and Jonte Newman and three-star guards Connor Carty, Nelson McGuire, Ty Thomas and Joshua Moses, all from Texas.

Rogers may not be Texas A&M’s last high-profile addition of the cycle. The Aggies enter Wednesday in the mix for five-star offensive tackle Michael Fasusi (No. 9 in the ESPN 300) and four-star wide receiver Jerome Myles (No. 33) — both of whom visited the program in Week 14 — while Texas A&M continues to battle Michigan for four-star defensive end Javion Hilson (No. 77).