Lawrence police were investigating after a person with a gunshot wound to the leg sought treatment at the hospital over the weekend. About 10:45 a.m. Sunday, officers were dispatched to Lawrence Memorial Hospital regarding a patient who came into the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the leg, Officer Shawn Gross said Monday in an email to media. Gross said the initial reported location was near 23rd and ...
The total value of Douglas County structures damaged by the recent tornado was $22 million, the county said this week. The Douglas County Appraiser’s Office calculated the figure by totaling the appraised value of all structures damaged by the tornado, whether totally destroyed or less severely damaged, according to county communications specialist Karrey Britt. Britt said the appraiser’s office tally ...
Updated story - June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders Confronted by a group of foes from Topeka at the corner of 11th and Massachusetts streets, Anthony L. Roberts Jr. pulled his gun with an extended magazine and started firing. “When I got done shooting, everybody scattered,” the 22-year-old Topeka man told a jury Friday, during his murder trial in Douglas County ...
Updated story - June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders Story updated 8:41 p.m. Thursday, June 20, 2019: Anthony L. Roberts Jr. said he came to Lawrence to go out downtown, where — unlike his hometown of Topeka — it was safe. “I know I can come down here, and I ain’t got to worry about getting shot at,” he said. “I ain’t never had an incident down here ...
Updated story - June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders Story updated at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Bullets tore through five people at the intersection of 11th and Massachusetts streets, but all save one apparently fragmented or were never found by police. Evidence left behind on the pavement did include 15 9 mm shell casings. All of those were fired from the ...
Updated story - June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders Story updated at 7:07 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2019: After the triple homicide on Massachusetts Street, Anthony L. Roberts Jr. confessed to a cousin that he shot one of the victims, the cousin told a jury Tuesday in Douglas County District Court. Roberts told her he did not shoot the other two people who died, the ...