
Lawrence musician, 39, was person shot and killed downtown; police chief says community is safe
After two fatal shootings in two days, the Lawrence police chief wants to assure the community that the city and downtown are safe.
After two fatal shootings in two days, the Lawrence police chief wants to assure the community that the city and downtown are safe.
The defense attorney representing a teen charged with the shooting death of a Lawrence boy has proposed an alternative suspect; however, a Lawrence detective who worked on the case said the evidence doesn’t support that.
A person was killed in a shooting in the 700 block of Vermont Street in downtown Lawrence, according to police.
Prosecutors say a Lawrence teen took a long-running disagreement to a lethal level, shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy last March. But the teen’s defense attorney is pointing at another potential suspect.
An 18-year-old man was shot in Lawrence Tuesday night and taken to a Kansas City-area hospital with critical injuries, but he did not survive, according to police.
Police have arrested a man in connection with the stabbing death of a 51-year-old woman in North Lawrence.
A woman was found dead from “apparent stab wounds” Thursday morning in North Lawrence.
The fiancée of a man charged with killing two people and firing a gun at police officers during a cross-town chase in July 2022 testified on Tuesday that the man had been acting strangely in the weeks leading up to the shootings.
A man charged with first-degree murder will have to wait until the end of the month to find out whether he will face trial for the beating death of a 62-year-old Lawrence man who claimed to be a leader of the aryan brotherhood.
The Douglas County jail was recording phone calls between some defendants and their defense attorneys for at least several months, a violation of their attorney-client privilege.
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