GARDNER, Kan. (AP) — A mother of a slain 2-year-old has filed a lawsuit against the suburban Kansas City girl’s father, his fiancée and the fiancee’s father.

The Kansas City Star reports that Stephanie Porting alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday that Lindsey Thomasson committed intentional battery as well as negligent physical discipline. Thomasson was caring for Porting’s daughter, Presley, when the girl died in February 2017.

Thomasson has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in Presley’s death. The charge alleges the girl died from child abuse. Presley’s last name has been listed both as Russom and Porting in court documents.

The suit also alleges Presley’s father, Nick Russom, and Thomasson’s father, Michael Thomasson, should have known Thomasson was abusing Presley. The girl lived with Russom and his fiancee in Gardner.

SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a series of aggravated robberies and have made an arrest.

 

On Thursday, police booked a 17-year-old into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on six counts of aggravated robbery, according to Lt. Jennifer Cross.

 

The suspect is believed responsible for multiple business robberies including two in July, two in September 7, two in November and one last month.

 

Police did not release the suspects name.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A woman has been charged in a Kansas City, Kansas, stabbing death after she was arrested over the weekend following a disturbance at a Missouri hotel.

Twenty-eight-year-old Tara Treece, of Kansas City, Kansas, is awaiting extradition to Wyandotte County, Kansas, where she is charged with second-degree murder and criminal use of a weapon. Prosecutors say in a news release that she is accused of killing 32-year-old Megan Hernandez last month.

Treece was taken into custody Sunday at a Marshall, Missouri, hotel, on suspicion of disturbing the peace. Marshall police say officers were at the hotel waiting for a warrant when staff reported that Treece was “being violent in her room and throwing items into the walls.” No attorney is listed for her in online court records.

PRATT— Officials with the Kansas State Fire Marshal’s office continue to investigate the cause of the fatal January 25 fire in Pratt.

Five people died as a result of the fire at a home in the 200 Block of Austin. Charee Eggleson, 23,  suffered burns and was flown from Pratt to St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. She died January 27.

Her four children, the youngest a baby, died after being trapped in the home’s basement. Several other adults survived the fire.

The State Fire Marshal’s investigative team is still following information and awaiting lab results before making an official determination on the cause of the fire, according to a media release from the State.

 

DICKINSON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting.

Dickinson County Sheriff Gareth Hoffman confirms his Department is investigating a Wednesday evening shooting from a motor vehicle into another motor vehicle. No one was injured.

Just before 9p.m. Wednesday, a vehicle northbound in the 3300 Block of Rain Road at a high rate of speed came  up behind another vehicle and the moved into the passing lane, according to Dickinson County Sheriff Gareth Hoffman.

The vehicle traveled in the passing lane next to the other vehicle and then someone fired a single shotgun round through the driver’s side rear window of the slower car.

Hoffman  said the victim was  a western Geary County resident who was traveling through Dickinson County at the time of the incident.  No motive is known at this time.