A Lawrence man was flown to a Kansas City area hospital Wednesday after he was dragged and run over by a truck, a witness said.

Police responded about 4 p.m. to an accident scene, where they found an injured man at the Gazebo Apartments in the 2400 block of West 24th Terrace.

Fred Frazier said he was a friend of the injured man, James Holder, 23.

Frazier said that Holder suddenly grabbed a pickup truck that drove by. The truck dragged him for about 25 feet when Holder then hit the ground, Frazier said.

“When he hit the ground, he rolled underneath the truck, and the truck ran him over,” Frazier said.

Frazier called 911 for help, and he tried to help Holder while he went into convulsions, he said.

Fred Frazier, who lives at the Gazebo Apartments on West 24th Terrace, talks with a Lawrence Police officer in the Gazebo parking lot. Frazier says he witnessed his friend being injured by a pickup truck that drove by. The friend was flown to an area hospital Wednesday, but no arrests had been made by that evening.

Lawrence Police Sgt. Dan Ward said Wednesday afternoon that officers continued to investigate the incident where “one individual was dragged by a vehicle and injured by that vehicle.”

Soon after the incident, police stopped a blue truck with a white camper shell near the Gaslight Village mobile home park on 31st Street. The truck matched the description from witnesses at the scene where Holder was injured.

Capt. Steve Zarnowiec said Wednesday evening that officers continued to investigate the “complex” incident and were interviewing several witnesses including at least two people in the truck that was stopped near Gaslight Village.

• 6News video: Altercation leads to hit-and-run accident

As of 8 p.m. Wednesday, no one had been arrested, the captain said.

The victim was flown by LifeStar to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., Zarnowiec said. As part of the investigation, police officers also went to the hospital, he said.

But Zarnowiec did not confirm Holder as the man injured.

Sgt. Craig Shanks said Wednesday night that the victim’s condition was critical but stable.