A LifeStar air ambulance responded to a life-threatening injury to a 47-year-old man at Home Depot, 1901 W. 31st St., Sunday afternoon, according to Douglas County Emergency dispatchers.
The 911 call came in about 3:15 p.m., but first responders had little information about the injury.
Emergency crews reported the man was unconscious with facial injuries.
"It is unknown how the injuries occurred," said Eve Tolefree, a Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical spokeswoman.
The man was taken to Kansas University Medical Center, but Tolefree said she could not provide any additional details.
Check LJWorld.com for updates as they become available.
Comments
rcmodel 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Sure be nice to have an update on what happened sometime 4 hours after the accident.
Shelving fall in the store, parking lot accident, disgruntleded employee attack, whatever?
rc
IMPARTIAL 11 months, 3 weeks ago
HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HOME DEPOT. HAPPENED BEHIND THE STORE BETWEEN 2 MEN NOT AFFILIATED WITH HOME DEPOT
DillonBarnes 11 months, 3 weeks ago
If that is their motivation, why would they even post this story in the first place? Sure, I have my issues with the LJWorld, but I just can't see how you can make that assumption from this story.
touringdriver 11 months, 3 weeks ago
well at-a-boy LJworld, guess we'll have to watch channel 4 or 5 tonight to get the WHOLE story.
Pywacket 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Probably a lot of people. If you don't care about the local news, why do you read the local online paper? For the Dear Abby column? You're on the wrong page.
thatguyoverthere 11 months, 3 weeks ago
It was another zombie attack!
north420 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Amen to that. It's not so much the newspaper as it is the law enforcement or government. Lot more crime here then ever posted in any paper. Trust me, I know
DillonBarnes 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Two things:
1) A call on the police scanner does not necessarily equal a crime.
2) LJWorld has no requirement to report every street fight that breaks out.
I'll admit, there are times when I wonder why they post a certain story, but fail to post another, but I don't go so far as to think it's a huge police/newspaper conspiracy.
shaunepec 11 months, 3 weeks ago
If there aren't updates it's usually because we haven't been able to get any new info. We make the calls to the appropriate people but sometimes with shift changes with emergency personnel the info. Doesn't come as soon as we'd like. Shaun
Pywacket 11 months, 3 weeks ago
They do have a point, though, Shaun... Sometimes there is nothing several days later--or days/many hours after other news sources have somehow obtained updates. I don't buy into the police/paper conspiracy to pretend Lawrence is just a "happy little place" but I do think updates are puzzlingly slow to show up here sometimes.
And there are far fewer police report items presented here than, say, in my hometown paper (the city is close in size to Lawrence). Their reports are wildly entertaining, as they usually include quirky details about what started a domestic disturbance or neighborhood fight. Sometimes they are laugh-out-loud bizarre. I'm talking "Joe Smith stabbed his brother's hand with a fork after his brother took Joe's toast out of the toaster and started eating it" type of thing.
While I wouldn't expect every paper to include that depth of detail, it is true that people are baffled when they see some incident or serious-looking car crash, then can find nothing about it in the paper later.
commonsenselawrence 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Pywacket....If you really want to know what calls the police are responding to and what action had been taken, listen to an online scanner or go to the PD's website that lists all of the calls within the last 48 hours...here is the link http://police.lawrenceks.org/content/48-hours-calls
Pywacket 11 months, 3 weeks ago
Thanks, csl! I am not so wrapped up in it that I need to get a scanner, but I'll probably look at the link if I see something going on and am curious about what was happening.
friendlyjhawk 11 months, 3 weeks ago
People that post anonymously and then demand to know more about the story are just nosy and crass. If it doesn't involve you, stay out of it. Yes, I know that others will want this post removed or want to tell me that everything that happens in Lawrence directly impacts on all. Just because John Dunne wrote it (No Man Is An Island) doesn't make it so.
Cai 11 months, 3 weeks ago
You're right - how dare I request that the local news paper cover things that would be considered local news? How nosy and crass of me!
Pywacket 11 months, 3 weeks ago
What Cai said. A bit full of yourself, aren't you, unfriendly?
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