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Brandon Snow appears on June 5, 2024, in Douglas County District Court.

A homeless man who was accused, but acquitted, of threatening a person with an ax near a Lawrence homeless camp was charged on Thursday with aggravated assault with a baseball bat and domestic battery.

Brandon Eugene Snow, 35, whose address on the jail booking log is the Lawrence Community Shelter but who is known to frequent various homeless encampments, was arrested Wednesday evening at the Lawrence Public Library on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, domestic battery and failure to appear in a municipal traffic case.

He was charged Thursday morning with the two offenses and was scheduled to appear in court Thursday afternoon. The alleged crimes involve the same victim, according to the charging document.

Lawrence Police Department spokeswoman Laura McCabe said officers were called to the library about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday. A worker there wanted a man trespassed, saying the man hit a woman, pulled her hair, then left.

While officers were talking with library personnel, the same man was found chasing the woman down the street with a bat, McCabe said.

Officers arrested the man, later identified as Snow, in connection with the library incident and a previous warrant. The man was also informed that he is trespassed from the library going forward, McCabe said.

A jury last August found Snow not guilty of one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a July 2023 incident on the Kansas River levee trail. In that encounter, Snow was accused of chasing a Lawrence couple with an ax near the city-sanctioned homeless camp in North Lawrence, but only one of the counts of aggravated assault proceeded to trial.