KSN Local News

• Several cars broken into at apartment complex
  
  WICHITA, Kansas – More than a dozen residents at a West Wichita apartment complex have fallen victim to vandalism.
  
  People woke up this morning to find their car windows smashed, but practically nothing was stolen.
  
  Ron Garrens showed KSN around his Jeep Liberty Saturday afternoon.
  
  The driver’s side windows on his SUV were smashed, but nothing was removed from his vehicle.
  
  "It looked like a random act of just vandalism,” Garrens said. “[It looks] like they were going through knocking out the glass."
  
  His vehicle was one of 11 reported by Saturday afternoon at Newport Apartments leaving Garrens and other victims in shock.
  
  “I looked down on the ground and saw glass shattered everywhere,” said Lucas Hershberger, whose truck window was broken out. “Then I looked at the car next to mine and the driver’s side window had been busted out, too."
  
  Apartment management say they have never had anything like this happen at the complex, adding it appears the vandals were smashing into random vehicles.
  
  "Well, it’s very hurtful,” said Betsy Mohr, Newport Apartment. “We want to make sure our residents are cared for and feel safe in their homes; we don't want them to feel not safe or secure."
  
  Several vehicles had nothing taken from inside, while others were ransacked with documents and money taken.
  
  "They stole about 2 or 3 dollars of pocket change," Hershberger said. "It's pure stupidity why someone is going out causing people hundreds of dollars worth of damage to their vehicles, just for a couple of dollars worth of change."
  
  If you notice your vehicle was broken into, call police.
  
  
  
  
• Tornadoes touchdown in Central Kansas
  
  HARPER COUNTY, Kansas – At least six tornadoes were reported in parts of South-Central Kansas, including in parts of Harper and Kingman Counties.
  
  Tornadoes were spotted near the towns of Spivey and Norwich around 6:30 this evening, damaging a few houses.
  
  Viewers have sent pictures and videos in of the tornadoes and hail from Saturday’s storms.
   
  Besides tornadoes, the storms produced tennis-ball sized hail in parts of Central Kansas.
  
  
  
  
• South Wichita apartment broken into, man pistol-whipped
  
  WICHITA, Kansas -- A 43-year-old man and 49-year-old woman were in their apartment on the 2500 block of West 31st St. South early Saturday morning when their home was broken into.
  
  The break-in happened around 5 a.m. when a man and woman, both in their mid-thirties, kicked in the front door and demanded money.
  
  The 43-year-old victim was pistol-whipped in the head with a handgun.
  
  He was treated at a local hospital and later released.
  
  Nothing was reported stolen.
  
   
  
  
  
• North Wichita homes shot at
  
  WICHITA, Kansas -- Several shots were fired at two North Wichita homes Friday evening.
  
  The first house on the 2600 block of N. Ash was targeted just before 10 p.m. Friday, where six rounds when through the front door.
  
  Officers say they found six shell casings in front of the home.
  
  No one was home at the time, and no one was injured.
  
  The second home on the 1700 block of N. Green was shot at just after midnight Friday.
  
  Three bullets hit the house, but officers say they found 18 shell casings of two different calibers in the street.
  
  Five people were at home at the time of the shooting, including three kids and two adults.
  
  No one was injured.
  
  Police say the family would not give authorities any information on the suspects.
  
  They have not said if the two shootings are related.
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
• 11-year-old slashes man's face with knife
  
  WICHITA, Kansas --  An 11-year-old boy slashed a 34-year-old man's face with a knife around 5 p.m. Friday in North Wichita.
  
  Authorities say the boy confronted the "Urban League" employee with the knife after the man broke up a fight the boy was involved in.
  
  

  "The suspect was angry with the victim because the victim had to restrain him during an earlier fight with another child," said Wichita Police Sgt., Scott Brunow.
  
  Authorities found the boy near the 900 block of N. Minnesota and booked him for aggravated battery at the juvenile detention facility.
  
   
  
  
  
• Former NE Kan. postmaster convicted of embezzling
  

  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- The former postmaster of a northeast Kansas post office has been convicted of embezzling.

  Federal prosecutors said in a release Friday that a jury found 50-year-old Terry L. Morris of Holton guilty on two counts of making a false writing and one count of embezzling public funds.

  Morris was the former post master for the post office in Whiting, a town of about 200 residents.

  Prosecutors said postal investigators found a shortage of more than $7,000 during an audit of the Whiting post office.

   

  
  

  
  
  
• Kansas Senate's majority leader resting at home
  

  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas Senate Majority Leader Jay Emler is resting at home after being hospitalized for high blood pressure.

  Emler's office confirmed Saturday that the Lindsborg Republican would not return to the Statehouse during the weekend after being absent since Wednesday afternoon.

  He was released Friday night from the Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka.

  Emler, a 62-year-old attorney, was first elected to the Senate in 2000 and is serving his third term. He's in his second year as majority leader. He previously served as chairman of the budget-writing Senate Ways and Means Committee.

  
  

  
  
  
• Fort Riley soldier found dead
  
  WICHITA, Kansas -- Around 7 a.m. Friday morning, someone called 911 from a home in Manhattan to report they thought a 24-year-old Fort Riley Soldier was dead.
  
  When EMS got there, they confirmed the man had died.
  
  Riley County Police do not suspect foul play at this time.
  
  An autopsy will be preformed this weekend.
  
  Authorities have not released the soldier's name and address.
  
   
  
  
  
• South Wichita shooting leaves man dead
  
  WICHITA, Kansas -- A 49-year-old man is dead after a Saturday morning shooting in South Wichita.
  
  Just before 1 a.m., Wichita police officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 100 block of East 44th St. South.
  
  Officers say when they got to the scene, the man had been shot multiple times.
  
  They say the victim heard noises outside of his home, and when he and two other people went outside to check it out, two other people started firing shots.   
  
  The victim was transported to Via Christi Hospital in critical condition where he later died.
  
  Authorities interviewed multiple witnesses and suspects in the area.
  
  "We had other individuals at the house that we have talked to that we have transported downtown and we are early in the investigation in talking to them," said Wichita Police Department Deputy Chief, Nelson Mosely.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Kan. gov. may seek to intervene in remap lawsuit
  

  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Gov. Sam Brownback says he may try to get involved in a federal lawsuit over the Kansas Legislature's failure to redraw the state's political boundaries.

  The conservative Republican governor told reporters Saturday that he is still deciding whether he'll file a request for permission to intervene in U.S. District Court. Interested parties have until Monday to file such requests.

  Nine other people have filed such requests, including House Minority Leader Paul Davis and Senate Reapportionment Committee Chairman Tim Owens, a moderate Overland Park Republican.

  Three federal judges plan to begin a hearing on the lawsuit May 29.

  The lawsuit was filed earlier this month by Robyn Renee Essex, a Republican precinct committee member from Olathe. The defendant is Secretary of State Kris Kobach.