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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two drivers were seriously injured early Wednesday morning in a crash on U.S. Highway 40 several miles northwest of Lawrence. Douglas County Sheriff's Office spokesman George Diepenbrock said in an email that deputies were dispatched to the crash at the intersection of U.S. Highway 40 and East ...
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 ...