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Lawrence Police Department

Story updated: 3:58 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018.

A fourth suspect has been arrested in a December home-invasion robbery and shooting that seriously injured a Lawrence man.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office took custody of Brian L. Smith, 30, of Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday evening at the Jackson County, Mo., jail, local jail records indicate.

Smith is charged with aggravated robbery, for allegedly robbing the man of personal property while armed with a handgun, and aggravated battery, for allegedly injuring him, according to the complaint filed in court. Both are felonies.

Smith made his first appearance Wednesday in Douglas County District Court, and a judge appointed him an attorney and set his bond at $50,000.

The sheriff’s office denied the newspaper’s request for Smith’s mugshot.

About 8:45 p.m. Dec. 20, 2017, robbers reportedly barged into an apartment in the 4500 block of Wimbledon Drive. A 21-year-old man who lived there was shot and flown to an area hospital for treatment; he survived.

The shooting victim told police he was at the apartment with his girlfriend when someone knocked at the door and asked for “Tim,” the Journal-World previously reported. When the victim said they must have the wrong house, someone said “run that (expletive)” and four suspects with handguns barged in.

Two suspects held the victim and his girlfriend on the first floor while the other two searched upstairs bedrooms.

The victim said the shortest suspect, whom other assailants called “Tink,” was the one who shot him. Police and prosecutors alleged that “Tink” was Kayshunna C. Poindexter, who is 5 feet 3 inches, according to jail records.

Poindexter, 26, of Lawrence, already has been convicted in the case and is in jail awaiting sentencing.

Court cases are pending against the two other men charged in the incident. Brian L. Proctor, 26, of Lawrence, is free on $25,000 bond. Jermel Fleming, 25, of Grandview, Mo., remains jailed on $100,000 bond.