After two full days of evidence for the state, jurors have barely skimmed the surface of the second scene involved in the Lawrence shooting case they’re hearing.
They did, however, get a photo walkthrough of the first crime scene from the Lawrence detective who led that investigation.
Tommy J. May, 60, of Lawrence, faces 10 felony charges in connection with an alleged two-part incident from July 2, 2018. ...
The courtroom atmosphere became so intense that a prosecutor requested a break multiple times Tuesday afternoon, but Marzetta Yarbrough said she wanted to get through her testimony.
“Let’s get it done, please,” she said from the witness stand.
Yarbrough, now 52, retold the events of July 2, 2018, when a bullet ripped through her cheek, into her shoulder and out her back. Prosecutors allege that it was ...
Updated at 10:47 p.m. Monday:
A 17-year-old boy suffered a minor gunshot wound just before 4 a.m. Monday, according to Lawrence police.
Officers were dispatched to Lawrence Memorial Hospital when hospital staff reported that a juvenile male patient had arrived at the emergency room with a gunshot wound, Patrick Compton, spokesman for the Lawrence Police Department, said via email Monday.
The shooting ...
A jury has been selected in the trial of a Lawrence man charged in connection with a July 2, 2018, shooting that injured two people in the 700 block of West 25th Street.
Tommy J. May, 60, is accused of shooting a woman in the face in his apartment, then shooting a man, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, then attempting to flee law enforcement and trying to hit an officer with his car at 21st and ...
A Lawrence man charged in connection with a January 2018 shooting that left one teen injured now has a new shooting case pending against him, meaning his statutory right to a speedy trial no longer applies.
Michael A. Hormell, 20, has been in the custody of the Douglas County Jail nearly two years since his arrest on Jan. 26, 2018. Police allege that he and his then-girlfriend set up a drug buy at Lawrence’s ...
Story updated at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday:
A fourth man charged in connection with a series of armed robberies around Lawrence in early 2018 was convicted Tuesday in Douglas County District Court.
Justice L. Dent, 21, of Lawrence, pleaded no contest to two counts of robbery, midlevel-severity felonies. As part of the plea, prosecutor Deborah Moody and Dent’s appointed defense attorney, Nicholas David, agreed to ...
