No basis exists for a gunman to claim immunity from prosecution in the Jan. 17 shootings at The Hawk, a Douglas County prosecutor has written, citing video and witness accounts in the case.
The 18-year-old shooter, Daitron Daniels Strickland, has claimed that he was acting in self-defense when he fatally shot another 18-year-old outside the Lawrence bar on Ohio Street and critically wounded a 16-year-old. ...
Updated at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5
A man accused of beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn was found not guilty Thursday of all six felony charges, including aggravated battery, in Douglas County District Court.
The jury of five men and seven women returned the verdicts after deliberating for just over three hours in the case of Elijah J. Garcia, of Lawrence, whose trial ...
A man accused of violently beating and pistol-whipping people in a car and again on his front lawn testified Wednesday that he was actually the victim, not the aggressor, on a September night in 2024 as the group returned to Lawrence from an Oktoberfest event in Topeka.
Elijah J. Garcia, of Lawrence, told a Douglas County jury that he had simply been acting in self-defense after the driver and the driver's ...
A Douglas County jury on Monday watched a 7-second video of a man slamming a handgun into the side of another man’s head and the gun instantly — and loudly — discharging.
The pistol’s firing at such close range left burn marks on the man’s face, his former girlfriend told the jurors.
That violent act, however, was just the final of many violent acts perpetrated by the defendant that night, she ...
A Texas man targeted a 10-year-old Lawrence girl with sexually graphic messages and persuaded her to participate in an exchange of nude photos and videos, according to the man's recently released arrest affidavit.
Dominik Smith, 21, of Irving, Texas, was charged in December 2025 with electronic solicitation of a child under the age of 14 and sexual exploitation of a child between 14 and 18 years old. Both ...
A 23-year-old Topeka man was arrested early Saturday morning outside Logie's bar in downtown Lawrence after he allegedly threw a glass bottle at a bouncer and spit at people.
Didier Omarion Lee Cosey was taken into custody around 1:30 a.m. outside the bar in the 700 block of Massachusetts Street.
According to Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman Laura McCabe, bar management was trying, unsuccessfully, to ...
