A police officer testified on Monday that he was “cold and tired” after three hours in a sniper position during an armed standoff when a Lawrence man walked
Dayson Gage Kelley, pictured in February 2020
A man who officers believed was readying a semi-automatic assault rifle around closing time in a popular Lawrence bar district was sentenced Thursday to 16 months in prison.
The judge told him that he or police officers could have lost their lives, and “that is something that none of us can stomach thinking about.”
Dayson G. Kelley, 19, of Topeka, was arrested in the early hours of Friday, Feb. 28, after Lawrence police officers Joshua Doncouse and Ian McCann saw him take a rifle out of the trunk of a vehicle in a parking lot near 14th and Ohio streets, the site of three popular college bars.