Kansas teen who killed mom in 2018 pleads no contest to two charges Amy Renee Leiker, The Wichita Eagle
Jun. 16 A teen who shot and killed his mother as she argued with his younger sibling at their sprawling Andover-area mansion in 2018 has pleaded no contest to aggravated battery and criminal use of a weapon.
Wednesday s plea, the result of extensive negotiations between prosecutors and the boy s defense attorney, comes nearly three years after 41-year-old Lisa Trimmell was fatally shot in the throat on June 20, 2018, after taking her two sons to a baseball game in west Wichita.
According to prosecutors, Lisa Trimmell became upset during a verbal argument with her 12-year-old son and made physical contact with him in the entryway of the home after the game. Her older son, who eventually was charged in connection with her killing, retrieved a gun from the back of a clock sitting on a shelf, returned to the entryway and shot her once, prosecutors say. He was 1
DA says no charges to be filed against Sedgwick County deputy in fatal 2019 shooting
Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said Thursday that no criminal charges will be filed against a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a woman after a high speed chase in 2019.
51-year-old Deborah Lee Arbuckle of Andover was shot by a deputy on December 30th, 2019 after a chase that began at Kellogg and Woodlawn and then went into southeast Wichita and into Butler County, then back into Sedgwick County. The chase ended near Mt. Vernon and Webb Road when a deputy used his patrol car to force Arbuckle’s car onto a curb. Deputies got out to confront the driver, but the car went into reverse, and one deputy believed it was going to hit other deputies on the scene. The deputy fired six shots into the passenger side of the vehicle.
WICHITA, Kan. A former Kansas mayor who resigned abruptly before being charged with making fake tickets to attend a zoo fundraiser has entered into a diversion agreement with prosecutors.
Former Goddard Mayor Jamey Lee Blubaugh signed his diversion packet in court on Monday. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said in a written statement that under the agreement Blubaugh must follow the law, perform 50 hours of community service and pay $980 in restitution plus other costs. Prosecutors charged Blubaugh and his wife, Elizabeth, each with one misdemeanor count of counterfeiting in August. The Wichita Eagle reports the announcement of the agreement comes on the same day the former mayor had been scheduled for trial.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A former Kansas mayor who resigned abruptly before being charged with making fake tickets to attend a zoo fundraiser has entered into a diversion agreement with prosecutors in.