Updated at 12:16 a.m. Friday, July 25 Police and emergency crews responded Friday morning to the northbound bridge of the Kansas River near downtown Lawrence after a woman was seen trespassing on the dam near the Bowersock power plant. Multiple first-responder vehicles were on scene before 9 a.m. after someone reported seeing her in the hazardous area, and she was helped to safety about an hour later. "The ...
Updated at 4:05 p.m. Thursday, July 24 A jury on Thursday found a man guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 39-year-old man last year in downtown Lawrence, rejecting the shooter's claim of self-defense. Nicholas Beaver, 34, was accused of gunning down Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence Public Library. The jurors — eight women and four men — began deliberating ...
A defendant accused of gunning down a man in broad daylight in front of the Lawrence Public Library told a jury that he did so because he was "terrified" after he said the man threatened to cut him up "in little bitty pieces." Though he maintained he acted in self-defense when he fatally fired three bullets into 39-year-old Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, Nicholas Beaver, 34, fled from the scene on a ...
A speech pathologist accused of molesting multiple children last winter at a Lawrence elementary school is asking a judge to reduce his bond from $1.5 million to $100,000 cash or surety. The defendant, 61-year-old Mark Gridley, has been in custody since Feb. 8, when he was accused of a sex crime against a Prairie Park Elementary student. Earlier this month, as expected, those charges were upgraded to include ...
"You got the wrong person, bro.” That’s what Nicholas Beaver told a detective after his arrest on the night of March 6, 2024. Thirty-nine-year-old Vincent Lee Walker had been shot dead in front of the Lawrence Public Library earlier that day, and Beaver was denying involvement. A year later, though, Beaver's attorney would acknowledge to a jury that Beaver was not "the wrong person" at all. He had indeed ...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 21 Some jurors appeared startled Monday when three gunshots loudly and abruptly rang out on a video that was being played for them. Preceding the gunshots, which presumably killed 39-year-old Vincent Lee Walker on March 6, 2024, in front of the Lawrence Public Library, jurors could hear bits and pieces of profanity and an apparent argument that was taking place off ...