SHAWNEE COUNTY – Authorities are investigating  an accident that sent a man to the hospital in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a BMW driven by Robert D. Greer, 59, Topeka, was  westbound on Interstate 470 approximately a mile south of Interstate 70.

A piece of metal debris, of unknown origin, came through the windshield and struck the Greer in the chest.

He was transported to the hospital in Topeka.  He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Wichita police officer is suing the city and two police officials for sex discrimination.

Tiffany Dahlquist, who was a patrol officer for six years, alleges in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the department discriminated against her after a teenager reported that Dahlquist hit her car and didn’t stop in September 2016.

Dahlquist denied hitting the car and prosecutors declined to file charges, citing a lack of evidence.

In her lawsuit, Dahlquist contends police conducted an unusually aggressive internal investigation before the criminal investigation was concluded. She was fired in February 2017 but three days later that decision was overturned and she was reinstated.

Dahlquist later resigned because she said she didn’t trust the department to protect her.

Spokesman Charley Davidson said the police department doesn’t comment on pending litigation.

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas police officer has been sentenced to 24 months of probation for groping a woman while taking her to jail.

Jesse Edward Lorenzo Davis, 22, of Carthage, Missouri, also was ordered Wednesday to register as a sex offender after pleading no contest to aggravated battery. As part of the plea, aggravated sexual battery and official misconduct charges were dropped.

Davis was fired from the Pittsburg Police Department after an investigation into the victim’s August 2017 domestic disturbance arrest.

The woman alleges in a lawsuit that she complied with the officer’s groping demands out of fear. The suit says a friend heard what happened to the woman through her phone, which was in the patrol car. The friends were connected through Facebook Messenger.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Suspects in the 1999 shooting deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the abduction of their 16-year-old daughter and her friend “bragged” about photographing the girls while they were bound, according to a court affidavit that outlines accusations against the only suspect who’s still alive.

The affidavit cites an interview with an unnamed witness who said Ronnie Dean Busick “started running his mouth” about his involvement in the slayings and kidnappings, and that the girls “were kept alive for several days” while tied up, raped and tortured them in a mobile home in northeastern Oklahoma.

Busick, 66, was charged Monday with four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of first-degree arson in the killing of Danny and Kathy Freeman of Craig County, and the disappearance of teenagers Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman.

Busick, who is currently jailed without bond in Kansas’ Harvey County, was interviewed by investigators at least three times last year but denies having any direct knowledge about the case and claims he does not know where the girls are.

Busick was scheduled to be released Sunday after serving a 60-day sentence for violating probation in a 2013 felony marijuana possession case, said Jason Lane, the county’s chief deputy attorney.

Instead, law enforcement from Oklahoma arrived Sunday to interview Busick and served a warrant, said Melissa Flavin, a spokeswoman for the Harvey County Sheriff’s Office.

William Brown, Busick’s attorney in the probation violation case, did not immediately return a phone message from seeking comment. Lane said Busick doesn’t have an attorney in the Oklahoma case.

Authorities said the Freemans were shot to death on Dec. 30, 1999, in their mobile home in Welch, Oklahoma, about 70 miles northeast of Tulsa. The home was then set on fire to cover up the slayings. Two other suspects, identified by authorities as Warren Philip Welch II and David A. Pennington, died while the case was under investigation, authorities said.

Witnesses interviewed by investigators said Busick told them the girls were duct-taped to chairs and that a “bunch” of photographs were taken of them. Other witnesses recalled seeing photos of the girls “lying on a bed, facing each other, with their hands tied and their mouths gagged,” the affidavit said.

Authorities believe the teenagers were eventually killed and might be buried in a pit near Picher, Oklahoma, a former mining boomtown that has largely been deserted because of pollution.

Lauria Bible’s mother, Lorene Bible, said she believes “somebody knows where these girls are.”

“We’re not finished. I will not stop until we bring the girls home,” Lorene Bible said. “I need a place where I can go and say that’s where my daughter is.”

The affidavit said Busick and the other suspects were linked to the case last year after authorities recovered a crate containing reports and files about the original investigator from the office of a former sheriff. Some documents were recovered from a private investigator who had also worked on the case, but investigative materials produced by a different private investigator were destroyed, the affidavit said.

Busick had multiple Kansas drug convictions, and he was imprisoned off-and-on in the state starting in the 1980s, Kansas Department of Corrections records show.

SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal hit and run accident and have identified the victim.

Just before 9:30 p.m. Monday, police responded to report of an injury accident in the 5200 Block of East Kellogg in Wichita, according to officer Charley Davidson.

Investigators determined that an eastbound BMW 3-series struck a 22-year-old man identified as Christian Rials of Wichita in the roadway. Rials is a known homeless man in that area, died of his injuries, according to Davidson.

The driver of the BMW fled the scene. At 2:30 a.m. Tuesday a 20-year-old man contacted offices at the Wichita Patrol East substation, according to Davidson. Officers determined he was involved in the fatal accident and was booked him on requested charges of felony hit and run and driving with a revoked license, according to Davidson.

On Wednesday, police reported they have located the BMW with front end damage involved in the crash.

Anyone with information on the incident or who sees the car is asked to contact Wichita Police.

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SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal hit and run accident and have made an arrest.

Just before 9:30 p.m. Monday, police responded to report of an injury accident in the 5200 Block of East Kellogg in Wichita, according to officer Charley Davidson.

Investigators determined that an eastbound BMW 3-series struck a 22-year-old man in the roadway. The victim, a known homeless man in that area, died of his injuries, according to Davidson.

The driver of the BMW fled the scene. At 2:30 a.m. Tuesday a 20-year-old man contacted offices at the Wichita Patrol East substation, according to Davidson. Officers determined he was involved in the fatal accident and was booked him on requested charges of felony hit and run and driving with a revoked license, according to Davidson.

Police have not located the BMW with front end damage involved in the crash.  Anyone with information on the incident or who sees the car is asked to contact Wichita Police.