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 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 Lawrence attorney for a Texas man accused of sex crimes against Douglas County children is asking the court to keep the public from seeing the reasons for the man's arrest.
Dominik Jamal Smith, 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 offenses are alleged to have occurred ...
Updated at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28
A Douglas County judge on Wednesday sentenced a Lawrence man to more than 12 years in prison for rape and aggravated criminal sodomy.
The sentence came after a jury in November convicted Miquel Brown, 33, of the two sex crimes and after his attorneys failed on Wednesday morning to win a new trial for him or a favorable departure from the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines.
The ...
Video of the Jan. 17 shootings at the Jayhawk Cafe shows the two underage murder defendants in the case sneaking into the bar through a side entrance and fighting with staff, including one of them brandishing a handgun and pointing it at a bouncer's head before exiting the bar, Lawrence police reported in an arrest affidavit.
After that, the confrontation quickly turned deadly when that gunman — Caiden Clem, ...
A defendant in the Jan. 17 fatal shooting at the Jayhawk Cafe is claiming that he should be immune from prosecution because he was acting in self-defense when he heard "multiple gunshots in close proximity to him."
Hearing those gunshots entitled 18-year-old Daitron Daniels Strickland to pull his own handgun out and start shooting without aiming it at anyone, his attorney, Razmi Tahirkheli, has written in a ...
