2006 Granada Shooting

Widow: Gangs weren’t involved
February 9, 2006
There were no gang vendettas or hip-hop feuds involved in the shooting that left a man dead this weekend outside a downtown night club, according to the widow of the man shot and killed.
Widow pleads for witnesses to come forward
February 8, 2006
Just days after Robert Earl Williams was shot and killed outside the Granada, his widow is speaking out. LaTonia Coleman says her husband of 14 years died in her arms early Sunday morning, and now she’s pleading with the public, hoping someone will come forward with information that will put his killer behind bars.
Shooting revives gun debate
Officials neutral on concealed weapons
February 9, 2006
A law-abiding citizen carrying a legally concealed weapon probably wouldn’t have made Massachusetts Street any safer during the Sunday shootout that left one man dead and another injured.
Police pursue shooting evidence in nearby alley
February 8, 2006
As funeral arrangements were being made Tuesday for a man killed in a downtown shooting, police returned to the crime scene to investigate new gunshot evidence.
New details not forthcoming in shooting case
February 7, 2006
Police are not releasing any new details about their investigation into the weekend shooting that left one man dead and critically injured another. Officers were called this afternoon to the alley behind the Granada, after a cook at Macelli’s Catering discovered a shell casing behind the business.
Shooting spurs review of bar rules
February 7, 2006
Sometimes, Mike Elwell figures, it’s just not worth collecting cover charges and selling drinks to visitors from Topeka.
Witnesses to shooting are silent
Officials unsure if death is isolated incident
February 7, 2006
Witnesses to a deadly weekend shooting are clamming up about the crime, Lawrence Police said Monday, but the violence appears to have been imported from out-of-town.
Investigators piece together details of downtown shooting
February 6, 2006
Investigators are piecing together what really happened before, during and after a fatal shooting early Sunday in downtown Lawrence. The gunfire erupted during a fight that broke out among a crowd gathered in front of the Granada Theater after the Upset Records 1-70 Tour.
Police: Witnesses silent about Sunday morning shooting death
Police plan to interview second victim
11:50 a.m., February 6, 2006 Updated 12:29 p.m.
Police are chasing hundreds of leads from the early Sunday morning downtown shooting that killed one man and injured another - but many of the main witnesses aren’t talking.
1 killed, 1 injured in shooting outside downtown nightclub
February 6, 2006
Gunfire erupted after a hip-hop show in downtown Lawrence early Sunday morning, killing one person and sending another by air ambulance to a Kansas City hospital in critical condition.
One man killed, another seriously wounded in downtown shootings
February 5, 2006
A man is dead an another is seriously injured after a shooting in downtown Lawrence early Sunday morning. At around 2:15 a.m., police were called to The Granada, where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds in the street just south of the theater, and another man who ran inside the theater after he was shot.
One man killed, another seriously wounded in downtown shootings
Police asking for help in locating suspect
05:10 a.m., February 5, 2006 Updated 10:31 a.m.
One man was killed and another man was seriously wounded when gunfire erupted overnight outside a downtown Lawrence night club, Lawrence Police announced this morning.