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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2006
VOL.116 ISSUE 101
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Suspect arrested in connection with Granada shooting
Jason Allen Rose and his attorney Ron Evans listen while Assistant District Attorney David Melton questions a witness about the fire that occurred at the Boardwalk Apartments on the morning of Oct. 7, 2005. Rose was charged Wednesday morning in the Douglas County District Court Building, 111 E. 11th St., with three counts of murder and one count of aggravated arson in connection with the fire.
Eighteen-year-old Rashawn T. Anderson was arrested on Wednesday night in connection with the murder of Robert E. Williams, according to a statement issued by the Lawrence Police Department
Police made the arrest at about 7:30 p.m.
Anderson, a Topeka resident, was arrested with assistance from the Topeka Police Department.
Williams was killed outside The Granada, 1020 Masachusets St., on Feb. 5.
A First Degree Murder arrest warrant was issued earlier in the day for Anderson.
He is being held on $500,000 bond in the Douglas Country Jail.
The Lawrence Police Department is to hold a media briefing and release more information regarding Anderson's arrest at 9 a.m. today.
Williams' murder was the first of the year in Lawrence and brought negative attention to the downtown area.
It is still unknown whether witnesses gave crucial information about Anderson's involvement in the shooting.
Jenn Bono/KANSAN
A second victim, Pierre Burnette of Kansas City, Kan., was injured in the shooting.
Apartment fire proceedings begin
The shooting occurred after a rap concert, when about two dozen people gathered outside to determine the location of an after-hours party with the performing artists when an altercation broke out between six people.
BOARDWALK HEARINGS
-DeJuan Atway
BY Mike MOSTAFFA
mmostafa@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The preliminary hearing began Wednesday in the trial of Jason Allen Rose. The 20-year-old Lawrence resident has been charged with three counts of murder, one count of aggravated arson and eight counts of aggravated battery in relation to the Boardwalk Apartments fire in October.
The court room was at full capacity, filled with witnesses, media personnel and family members of victims, from all over the state. None of Rose's family members were in attendance.
Three people died in the fire, including KU student Nicole Bingham.
In his testimony, Lawrence police detective Troy Squire said Rose became the main suspect in the case after Rose gave conflicting stories about his actions the night of the fire. Squire also said he used information he obtained regarding a fire that he said Rose started as a 12-year-old boy in foster care. Squire said he learned that the 12-year-old Rose set a trash can on fire after being told he was not allowed to watch the television show "Power Rangers."
Squire said that during a follow-up interrogation, a teary-eyed Rose told him that on Oct. 7 he had set a box containing photos and birthday cards from his father on fire. Squire said Rose told him the fire spread to the apartment's wooden railing and Rose tried to put it out with a rug. He said Rose told him the fire continued to spread and Rose went back inside his apartment to watch television.
Squire said that Rose had told him he wanted a small part of the building to burn "but he didn't want to see anyone hurt."
Rose shortly after placed an emergency call reporting that his apartment building was on fire. Assistant district attorney David Melton played this and several other 911 calls at the trial.
Melton began his long list of witnesses with Lawrence police officer David Ernst, who was the first officer to arrive at the scene of the fire. Ernst said he originally thought the fire was only a small porch
fire, but later realized it was much worse. He said he went to help KU student Leigh McHatton, who had narrowly escaped the fast moving flames.
McHatton said she suffered third degree burns to her feet and hands when she fleed down the apartment stairs through a "wall of fire" to escape the blaze-engulfed building. McHatton held up her scarred hands in court and showed them to District Court judge lack Murhyp.
called as witnesses a number of former Boardwalk Apartment tenants who had survived the fire. Some had to limp and crutch their ways to the stand. Former KU graduate student Eli Greenbaum gingerly walked toward the stand, still recovering from breaking his heels after jumping from his window to the paved parking lot to escape the fire.
For the next several hours, Melton
The only friend to Rose in the crowd was Gary Winchel, a member of Victory Bible Church, 1942 Massachusetts St., who said
he came to provide Rose with a "familiar face during this difficult process."
Winchel called Rose a very "nice and respectful" young man and said he was "completely shocked" to learn Rose, whom he and his family used to take to lunch after Sunday morning church, was charged with setting the fire.
The hearing will continue at 9 a.m. today in Douglas County Court Division Two.
— Edited by Cynthia Hernandez
BARS
Licenses given another look
Carly Pearson/KANSAN
Rich Terry, Lawrence resident, stamps hands of underage customers outside the door at Abe & Jake's. Doormen ask for a second form of ID if they are unsure the first form of ID is legitimate.
BY KRISTEN JARBOE
kjarboe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Daniel Dulin is over 21. He is a Lawrence resident. He wanted to have a good time over the weekend. So one night he met up with one of his friends and headed up to a nightclub. But Dalin almost had to leave because he did not have his KUID with him.
Local bars and nightclubs sometimes require people who enter to have a second form of identification besides a driver's license. Typically, a KUID is the form that is requested.
Bar owners, such as co-owner John Heleniak of The Hawk, 1340 Ohio St., said they asked people for a second form of ID if the driver's license looked like a fake or was expired.
Owners also asked for KUIDs when they wanted to exclude non-students. John Craven, general manager of The Cadillac Ranch, 2515 W. Sixth St., said they ask for a KUID on Thursdays because it's the bar's featured college night.
Mike Logan, general manager at Abe and Jake's, at Sixth and New Hampshire streets, said the bar asked students for KUIDs during its basketball and football afterparties, which are geared for KU students.
Dulin, a 22-year-old who dropped out of the University of Kansas in October, suspects other reasons why bars ask for KUIDs.
Three months ago, Dulin, who is black, was standing in line and noticed some white women in front of him who walked in without being asked for their KUIDs. He was surprised when he and his friend, who is also black, were asked to
show their KUIDs. Dulin didn't have his and his friend doesn't go to the University. The employees at the door told them they couldn't get in unless they had KUIDs.
"I didn't question them, but I said. That's fine, but I'm going to stand here and see if you ask anyone else for their KUIDs," Dulin said. "They said I could, but when they realized we were really going
Dulin said there wasn't anyone in the VIP line at the time, but an employee who he knew soon came up the stairs at the entrance and told Dulin and his friend to come in.
to stand there, they told us to move because we were blocking the VIP line."
SEE KUID ON PAGE 4A
STUDENT SENATE
Ignite accused of libel by member of Delta Force
BY NICOLE KELLEY
nkelley@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
A Delta Force coalition member filed an elections code violation Tuesday accusing the opposing Ignite coalition of libel.
Gina Gay, Leawood sophomore
Gina Gay, Lea and current Black Student Union senator, filed the report after she learned her name had been published on the official campaign Web site as an Ignite supporter.
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"It's not that I dislike anyone in
meeting and that the earliest the commission would hear the complaint would be next Thursday.
Gay, who has decided to run under the Delta Force coalition for the freshman/sophomore class senator position, said she was mostly worried about her loyalties to the other organizations she was involved
There are no bad terms or ill will between them. I just wanted an apology and to let people know I'm not running with them."
Gina Gay Leawood sophomore
their coalition, I was just very upset and kind of angered to find out this happened," Gay said. "There are no bad terms or ill will between them. I just wanted an apology and to let people know I'm not running with them."
Jonathan Steele, Elections Commission chairman, said the commission would not hold a hearing for the complaint at this week's
that it may have looked like she had betrayed those organizations.
After her name appeared on the Web site she said she began getting calls from other members of Black Student Union and Delta Force questioning that loyalty. Gay said she was upset
with.
"Basically, I feel as though they tell me they didn't do it maliciously, but it was a conscious effort that they put my name on their Web site," she said. "It made me angry and upset that they did that."
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Jayplay
This week's Jayplay features a deep look at the stories and struggles of Lawrence's homeless population. Also, read about how to weasel your way out of a ticket, and tell if you're ready for sex.
Kansas struggles at Texas Tech The women's basketball team fell flat last night against the Red Raiders,losing 62-50.The Hawks will finish the season 1-7 on the road,PAGE 12A
Self a Tiger?
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Self a Tiger?
What if Bill Self were coaching at Missouri?
Columnist Ryan
Schneider says it's not as crazy as it seems.
Self could have had a big impact on Missouri's program if he ended up a Tiger. PAGE 12A
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