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- June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders
Story updated at 6:54 p.m. Monday, June 17:
Two reticent witnesses testified Monday morning at the murder trial of Anthony L. Roberts Jr.
One of the witnesses was facing the man who allegedly shot him twice and fatally shot his cousin, to whom he crawled after the shooting but found lifeless on the sidewalk.
The ...
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- June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders
Updated at 6:13 p.m. Friday, June 14:
Robert Wheeler was squarely at the center of the brawl that escalated to deadly gunfire on Massachusetts Street.
The Topeka resident then helped police load his fatally injured cousin into a patrol car to be rushed to the hospital. He briefly talked to an officer at the hospital. ...
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- June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders
Story updated at 6:31 p.m. Thursday, June 13, 2019:
Silence weighed over the courtroom as a young woman quietly described seeing her best friend crumple to the sidewalk after being shot, then holding her hand as she died on Massachusetts Street.
Next, Courtney Germany said she called Leah Brown’s mother.
“I told ...
Updated at 2:19 p.m. Wednesday
Douglas County Sheriff Ken McGovern will retire instead of seeking reelection to a fifth term in 2020, he announced Wednesday.
McGovern, 60, has worked for the sheriff’s office for 37 years and was elected sheriff, as a Republican, in 2004. He said his decision followed lengthy consideration.
“After great discussion and consideration with my family, I’ve determined that I ...
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- June 25 — Jury finds Topeka man guilty of 3 downtown Lawrence murders
While hundreds of others on Massachusetts Street were just out having a good time, Anthony L. Roberts Jr. rolled into Lawrence to “settle a score,” prosecutors contended Wednesday in opening arguments at Roberts’ murder trial.
Roberts, 22, of Topeka, and his friends confronted a group of other Topeka men they ...
Confronted after the girl told someone about the abuse, a Lawrence man admitted that he sexually abused and showed pornography to a young girl he babysat over a period of years, according to a police affidavit.
He claimed he wasn’t sexually attracted to the girl, but told police that being naked, masturbating and watching porn in front of her was “exciting” because he knew it’s something he isn’t ...
