A Tennessee man has been charged with multiple felonies in connection with allegedly leading Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a 3.5-mile chase with a baby and loaded guns in his vehicle. Kenneth Jeremy Leedom, 32, of Woodbury, Tenn., was charged in Douglas County District Court Monday with four felony counts, including aggravated battery against a law enforcement officer, aggravated endangering of ...
A Lawrence mother is mourning the loss of her young son and hoping she'll soon have answers about his death. The mother, Kristina Turner, said it was intuition that drove her to pick up the phone and call the relative who had been caring for her child. “I had just a gut-wrenching feeling that something wasn’t right,” she said. That was how she found out the boy — DéVonté Lashawn Turner, who had ...
Story updated at 6:24 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12: A jury trial for a Lawrence man charged with shooting another man in the doorway of his home nearly two years ago has been delayed again as his appointed attorney has withdrawn from the case. Steven A. Drake III, 22, is charged with first-degree premeditated murder in the Sept. 19, 2017, homicide of Bryce S. Holladay, 26, of Lawrence, at Drake’s home in the 2000 ...
A man who allegedly attempted to solicit a young girl at a downtown Lawrence restaurant is back in the Douglas County Jail, more than four years after he was first booked there. As his case continues, Jonathan Stephen Nelson is representing himself — a method that did not pan out in his favor when he appealed his previous sex crime conviction, but did earn him a compliment in a court opinion. Nelson has ...
Story updated at 9:35 a.m. Monday, Aug. 12: A man was arrested Sunday after allegedly ramming a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle and leading deputies on a chase while having a baby in his truck. Kenneth J. Leedom, 32, was arrested on suspicion of stolen property, attempting to flee or elude police and aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer, Deputy Charlie Cooper said via email ...
A house fire that displaced five residents of a southwestern Lawrence home has been determined to be accidental, but it caused $150,000 in damages. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical responders arrived at the house, 4121 Teal Drive, at 1:32 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, the Journal-World reported. They found heavy fire involvement on the front side of the home that extended into the garage and brought the fire under ...