SEDGWICK COUNTY —The Wichita Police Department (WPD) has identified the man fatally wounded in an officer involved shooting on January 10, as 29-year-old Geoffrey Morris of Wichita. Morris died of  his injuries on Saturday, according to officer Charley Davidson.

Just after 1 p.m. that day two police officers and a Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) employee working with the enforcement apprehension unit, attempted to arrest Morris in the parking lot of the Sedgwick County Corrections Office, 905 N. Main. The officers knew Morris to be armed and dangerous.

Multiple warrants existed for Morris including for three counts of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery; intentional bodily harm with a deadly weapon and aggravated assault; use of a deadly weapon. The second for aggravated assault; use of a deadly weapon and attempted theft of property or services.

Morris also had traffic warrants out of Newton and Wichita. In one case, Morris pointed a handgun and threatened loss prevention employees to avoid apprehension. In another case, Morris entered a home armed with a handgun along with other armed suspects. Morris and the other suspects battered three males in the home and a shot was fired. Property was stolen and they and fled.

The officers made multiple previous attempts to have Morris turn himself in peacefully. The officers were conducting follow-up on Morris and believed he may arrive at approximately 1 p.m. at the Sedgwick County Corrections Office with his 26-year-old girlfriend.

The Officers observed Morris arrive driving a red 2008 Ford Focus and park in a parking stall. His girlfriend exited the vehicle and entered the Corrections Office. The KDOC employee pulled behind the suspect vehicle and the two WPD Officers parked an unmarked vehicle and approached the front of the vehicle. The officers drew their handguns and gave verbal instructions for Morris to exit the vehicle.

Morris refused to exit the vehicle, reversed the vehicle forcefully ramming the KDOC vehicle and then pulled forward turning toward a WPD officer on the driver’s side of the vehicle, almost striking him. The two WPD officers fired multiple shots toward the suspect vehicle, striking Morris multiple times.

Morris drove the vehicle over a parking block, into a metal pole in the parking lot, into a concrete pillar, crossed Main Street and struck a concrete fence on the east side of Main. Morris was transported to an area hospital in critical condition for medical treatment. A WPD officer received minor injuries to his arm while removing Morris from the vehicle, after the crash. Morris was in possession of a handgun, and officers determined the tag on the Focus was reported stolen in Sedgwick County.

The WPD officer’s involved are a 13-year-veteran and a 5-year-veteran of the department. Both officers are part of the WPD Violent Crimes Task Force, focusing on arresting the most violent offenders. The continued proactive work of this task force has helped reduce shootings in Wichita and keep citizens safe. Both officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard protocol in officer-involved shootings.

RENO COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating two teens in connection with an armed robbery.

According to police, two victims reported they were robbed at gunpoint just before 9p.m. Saturday in the 600 Block of North Star in Hutchinson.

One of the victims told police that 18-year-old Caleb Grant held a gun to his neck and threatened to kill him if he moved. The suspects allegedly took a cell phone, cash and a backpack.

Police arrested Grant who is from Wichita and he is jailed on a $26,500 bond. Police also arrested Destiny Hippen of Hutchinson and took her to juvenile intake.

Grant also faces a probation violation where he was convicted of assault last year which also involved a handgun.

There may also be a third suspect who has yet to be arrested, according to police.

SEWARD COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas teacher for an alleged sex crime.

On Sunday at the request of school administration, police initiated an investigation into allegations that a teacher at the Liberal High School had sexual relations with an 18-year-old student, according to Police Captain Robert Rogers.

The investigation concluded that the incident had occurred Saturday at an address in the 1200 block of W. 10th Street in Liberal.

Police arrested the 25-year-old female teacher, according to Rogers.  An affidavit was forwarded to the Seward County Attorney’s Office seeking the charge of unlawful sexual relations.  The teacher has resigned her position.

Police did not release her name.  A bond had not been set and late Monday she was still in custody, according to Rogers.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 33-year-old man who ran over a Wichita police officer nearly two years ago has been sentenced to more than 28 years in prison.

Justin Terrazas was sentenced Monday to 28.4 years, which will run consecutive to an 11-year sentence in a separate case from Ellsworth County.

Prosecutors say Terrazas ran over officer Brian Arterburn while fleeing in a stolen vehicle in February 2017 as Arterburn placed spike strips on a road in south Wichita.

Arterburn, a 25-year police veteran, spent nearly 10 months in hospitals in Colorado and Texas. He returned to Wichita in November 2017 and took a medical retirement from the police department last year.

Terrazas was on probation in Ellsworth County for introducing contraband into a correctional facility when he ran over Arterburn.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas military school failed to adequately supervise cadets entrusted to its care and intentionally inflicted emotional distress in 2014 on a bullied 11-year-old student who had been physically tied together with his harasser in public as punishment, according to an arbitration award made public Monday.

Shortly thereafter, the boy was allegedly raped and sodomized by his harasser in a dorm room at St. John’s Military School in Salina, the court filing said.

A $369,175 arbitration award last month against St. John’s Military School and its endowment fund was made public on Monday when the family’s attorney, Dan Zmijewski, filed a procedural motion in the federal case seeking a court order confirming it. Zmijewski represents the Tennessee father of the bullied boy. The initial complaint listed the boy’s age as 12, but the family’s attorney and arbitrator both noted the boy was 11 at the time of the alleged assault.

School officials and the school’s attorneys did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.

The arbitration award, dated Dec. 17, followed a four-day hearing in September.

The private boarding school for grades 6 to 12 draws boys from around the country as it touts its ability to develop academic and leadership skills in a military environment. Tuition is $34,100 a year, according to its website.

Arbitrator John Phillips of the American Arbitration Association found St. John’s school was suffering from decreasing enrollment and did little review of applicants to determine their own safety or the safety of other students.

The alleged perpetrator, another student who now lives in Washington state, had a troubled childhood that raised a substantial question as to whether he should have been admitted to the boarding school, according to the ruling.

Shortly after arriving at St. John’s, he was observed bullying other students and demanding that they call him “master.” The 11-year-old student was one student that he bullied extensively, and on one occasion “adult supervision” at the school decided to tie them together and leave them in a public area within the school, the court filing said.

“Not only was it an unconventional way to discipline boys that age but the boarding school’s own expert testified that it resulted in humiliation of both boys and made things only worse” for the boy who was the object of the other student’s bullying, the arbitrator wrote in his findings.

The bullied boy did not tell anyone he was sexually assaulted until more than a year later. A therapist attributed the boy’s post-traumatic stress disorder to the sexual assault, saying he will likely need treatment the rest of his life, according to the arbitration ruling.

The arbitrator noted that the school acknowledged there was “some sort of unfortunate incident,” but did not concede that a nonconsensual sexual assault necessarily occurred.

No criminal charges were ever filed in the case, which Zmijewski attributed to the fact that the rape was not immediately reported or investigated. A complaint was later made to state child welfare officials who determined the charges were unsubstantiated without even interviewing his client, Zmijewski said.

The arbitrator also faulted the school for moving an aggressive, threatening student across the hall from a student who was known to have psychological issues.

In his finding of negligence, the arbitrator also faulted the school for its lack of documentation or investigation and for its decision to allow the aggressive cadet to remain a student for the remainder of the school year. But the arbitrator did not find the conduct or failure to provide appropriate care was so outrageous or egregious as to warrant punitive damages.