Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday and includes 196 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident ...
A man convicted of raping a teenager he met at a Lawrence bar will not face an additional trial on a related rape charge the jury couldn't agree on. Instead, Albert N. Wilson, 23, of Wichita, will be sentenced for the single rape conviction the jury returned last week. On Wednesday, Wilson appeared in Douglas County District Court to determine the next steps for his case. Prosecutor Amy McGowan said the ...
A man now stands convicted in a summertime shooting that wounded a 17-year-old girl outside a Lawrence apartment complex. In the early-morning hours of July 5, 2018, the girl was in a car with friends who had been aiming Roman candles at the apartment building where Rashan A. Gill, 20, lived. Gill came outside and fired a handgun at their car, and a bullet hit the girl in the back seat. Gill was charged with ...
The Eudora Police Department shared some body camera footage from a recent fire, where two officers who beat firefighters to the scene went inside and pulled an unresponsive man to safety. The fire was reported just before 1 a.m. Jan. 7 in a two-story house at 918 Church St. — with no working smoke alarms, we reported last week. The man fell asleep while smoking and ignited his mattress, which doesn’t ...
It will be months longer before a jury decides whether Steven A. Drake III is guilty of murder for fatally shooting a man in what he claims was self-defense. Drake, 22, of Lawrence, had been scheduled to go on trial this week in Douglas County District Court, but Judge Kay Huff on Tuesday moved the trial to April 29. She also marked off seven days for the trial at that time, instead of just five as previously ...
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours. Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 169 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature. It's important to remember that each incident only ...