Battery in Oread neighborhood leaves victim with ‘extensive facial injuries’
Lawrence police are investigating a reported attack that left a person with “extensive facial injuries” this weekend in Lawrence’s Oread neighborhood.
Police were dispatched to an aggravated battery about 12:10 a.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Ohio Street. Officer Derrick Smith said, in an email, that the 18-year-old male victim received “extensive facial injuries” as well as lacerations to the shoulder.
The victim was unable to provide a complete suspect description, Smith said.
Smith said Monday that additional details about the incident were not immediately available and that the Lawrence police investigation is ongoing.