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Lawrence police investigate after a shooting at The Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026.

A young man was summoned to appear on Friday in Douglas County District Court to face charges that he sold wristbands to underage people so that they could drink alcohol in January, when two people were shot at The Hawk bar, one fatally.

The young man, Hunter J. Noravong, is listed in court records as having been born in 2006 and as residing in Shawnee Mission. According to his LinkedIn page, he’s a computer engineering student at the University of Kansas. The criminal complaint charges him with four misdemeanor counts of “purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverage by a minor.” The complaint alleges that he sold a wristband to four individuals with the initials BC (born in 2009), DC (born in 2008), CA (born in 2008) and JG (born in 2010).

Wristbands are commonly used at college bars like the Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., to show that the people wearing them are 21, which is the legal drinking age in Kansas. The presumption is generally that anyone with a wristband has first been carded in order to receive it. Noravong, however, has been accused of simply selling the age markers. His connection, if any, to The Hawk was not clear in available documents.

The Journal-World was unable to reach a spokesperson for The Hawk on Friday.

The case against Noravong was apparently triggered by the Kansas Department of Revenue’s Alcoholic Beverage Control division after the shootings on Jan. 17 that left 18-year-old Aidan Knowles dead and 16-year-old Brady Clark, who has since turned 17, critically wounded. Clark appears to be the individual BC listed in Noravong’s criminal complaint.

In the shooting case, one teen, Daitron Daniels Strickland, 19, of Shawnee, has been charged with first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, criminal possession of a firearm by a felon and misdemeanor battery. Another teen, Caiden Clem, 19, of Atchison, is facing four counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal possession of a weapon by a felon.

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Caiden Clem, left, and Daitron Daniels Strickland appear Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026, in Douglas County District Court.

Both defendants in the shooting case are also listed as witnesses in the wristband case, as is the deceased Knowles and numerous officials from Alcoholic Beverage Control, commonly known as ABC, the Lawrence Police Department and the KU Police Department.

Noravong’s next court appearance was not listed in online records as of close of business Friday. The Journal-World has reached out to law enforcement officials for additional details about the case.

Daniels Strickland and Clem, who are each being held on $1 million bond in the Douglas County Jail, are scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 10.