One person killed in shooting near Lawrence library, police say
A person was killed in a shooting in the 700 block of Vermont Street in downtown Lawrence, according to police.
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.
A costumed man traveled to two homes in Lawrence, shot and killed two men on a ”snitch list” in the span of half an hour last summer, according to testimony in a preliminary hearing Friday.
The same day a 14-year-old Lawrence boy was killed, his alleged shooter had been using social media to send messages full of racial slurs and insinuating violence, according to testimony.
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