A family dispute in a Lawrence apartment ended in the death of 27-year-old Oliver Johnson on August 13, 2023. Police found him unresponsive on the kitchen floor of an apartment in the 7100 block of Foxborough Drive; he was pronounced dead at the scene from two gunshot wounds. Officers reported Oliver was holding a wooden baseball bat when they arrived.

Investigators focused on his father, 53-year-old Rolf Johnson. Court documents say Rolf contacted another son and told him to call police, claiming Oliver had tried to strike him and that Rolf had retaliated, possibly with a hammer. The coroner’s finding of gunshot wounds contradicted that account. At the scene officers found an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun on a cot near Oliver’s body, plus a bullet casing and a hole in a wall. Rolf Johnson was arrested shortly after in a nearby town; officers noted what appeared to be blood on his pants and he was booked into the Marion County Jail on a murder charge, held without bond.

Does anyone have information about the events at the Foxborough Drive apartment that night?