District Attorney Marc Bennett claims "stand your ground" law is justification to avoid prosecuting officers who killed 17-year-old Cedric Lofton. When Lofton returned to his foster home the morning ...

A federal appeals court denied qualified immunity to five Sedgwick County juvenile detention officers involved in the 2021 death of 17-year-old Cedric “CJ” Lofton at the Juvenile Intake Assessment ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A federal appeals court says the lawsuit over Cedric Lofton’s death can continue, ruling a jury could find that officers used too much force. Lofton, 17, died in 2021, two days ...

TOPEKA — A panel of U.S. Court of Appeals judges agreed with a lower court that Sedgwick County juvenile detention personnel couldn’t sidestep an excessive-force lawsuit filed against them after a ...

Authorities say the death of a Kansas inmate following a struggle with jail staff has been ruled a homicide and the case referred to prosecutors to determine whether to file charges MISSION, Kan. -- ...

MISSION, Kan. – A Kansas sheriff’s deputy was charged Thursday with murder in the death of a jail inmate who sustained broken ribs after his back was kneeled on after he was wheeled from the infirmary ...