Markers remembering two teenagers killed by Lawrence police in the summer of 1970 could finally see their way back onto the agenda of the city's Historic Resources Commission in the coming months.
Fearless and big-hearted are how family members of a 14-year-old Lawrence boy recently shot and killed remember him. Kamarjay Shaw’s parents and loved ones said they won’t quit until he gets justice.
All told, Tiger Dowdell’s murder at the hands of a police department that had threatened to kill him shortly before his death, his grandmother told the KBI drastically changed the fabric of Lawrence.
A KBI case file leaves one prevailing question which may ultimately be lost to history: Why did Lawrence Police Officer William Garrett shoot and kill Rick "Tiger" Dowdell on July 16, 1970?