lead lawyer of one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. still a part of preparing the case? yes, sir. still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together for trial? in a criminal case, we didn t do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? yes, sir. presenting evidence in court? yes, sir. giving jury arguments? i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, either pled out or were dismissed for some reason? you know, i m sure that at some point over between 1998 and 2021 that i took some plea, but as we sit here today i can t specifically remember that, and i don t ever remember working a case up for trial that didn t go to trial, but i m sure at some point in time i was involved in some level of a guilty plea or guilty pleas. you would agree with me that t
Transformer shattered in the street. Just feet from two Canton Police officers who heard the warning signs something bad was about to happen. You heard the crack. You looked. You started, it was like slow motion and you just got out of the way. Reporter both of you at the same time . Go exactly. Reporter sargent paul and officer of the officer were on detail watching cleanup after the storm blew neighborhood and brought down power lines and two poles with it. Hours later with the officers standing feet away, a third power pole came down when workers removed a power line that was holding it up. Thank god the power was dead to it because i dont know what could have happened if it was live pour running to it but it wasnt. The power has been killed up around the corner. So we were lucky. Reporter next time the officers say they wont push their luck. It was terrifying. That close to it so, you know, maybe next time we get a little farther away. Reporter the only lights on coming from the re
The first shots came at 4 57 and 26 minutes later three people in the plant are dead along with the shooter. And this is a man most people describe as pretty calm. A gentleman, his name is adam, he got shot. Reporter victims loaded to ambulances as First Responders rushed to help people in need. It happened at excel industries in kansas. There was a man shot in his truck and another in the street and a scene in the parking lot of excel and in the plant itself a horrible incident. I saw people running and im assuming fire, and i take a few steps and hear a pop, pop, and im thinking paint cans for something. And more people running, pop, pop, pop. The shooter was an employee, and they didnt have nor information about a motive or how long they was working there. Police shot and killed him in the plant. For hours the area around excel state police with the fbi and loved ones reunited grateful to be alive after seeing what they described a terrifying scene of confusion and fear. I have no i