DOUGLAS COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a double murder and have a suspect in custody after a high-speed chase that included shots fired at police.
Just after 1a.m. Sunday, police received 911 calls about shots fired in the 1100 block of Tennessee in Lawrence, according to Police spokesperson Laura McCabe.
Officers arrived at the home and found a 53-year-old man critically injured with gunshot wounds. Emergency Responders helped transfer him to a Kansas City trauma department where he was pronounced dead.
Not long after, another call came in about shots fired in the 300 block of Northwood Lane. Officers found another victim at that location. The 43-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators worked through the night to identify a suspect, located him, and tried to pull him over in the 900 Block of Lawrence Avenue about 6:00 am.
The suspect later identified as 51-year-old Rodney Ericson Marshall did not comply and a led officers on a pursuit through town, down Haskell and to the Bypass accessing K-10 toward Kansas City.
Marshall fired several times at officers while on K-10 until eventually hitting the stop sticks near Eudora and was taken into custody. A female passenger was also in the car at the time of the arrest and is being questioned by investigators.
This investigation involves multiple agencies, several locations, two victims, and the attempted murder of several Law Enforcement Officers, according to McCabe. Police have not released names of the victims.
Marshall has previous convictions for aggravated assault, criminal threat, criminal deprivation of property and for drugs, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.