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When family members arrived at Oak Hill Cemetery on Saturday to lay 14-year-old Kamarjay Shaw to rest, they were distraught to learn that his burial plot — next to that of his great uncle, Rick “Tiger” Dowdell — had not yet been dug.
Fearless and big-hearted are how family members of a 14-year-old Lawrence boy recently shot and killed remember him. Kamarjay Shaw’s parents and loved ones said they won’t quit until he gets justice.
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A Lawrence 17-year-old charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy is seeking immunity from prosecution.
The Douglas County district attorney’s office wants to try Derrick D. Reed, 17, as an adult in connection with an eastern Lawrence shooting that left a 14-year-old boy dead on Saturday, court records show.
Kamarjay Shaw, 14, was “a wonderful young teen and a joy to anyone he came around,” according to an online fundraiser his family has launched to help pay for his funeral.
A suspect in a shooting that left a Lawrence teen dead Saturday has turned himself in, police said in a Sunday afternoon update.
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A 14-year-old boy has died after a shooting Saturday in eastern Lawrence, according to multiple sources.
