Bar's Minors Drinking Violations Before Shooting

0:00It's April 30th. Welcome in. This is Kansas News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. Back in January, a shooting at the Hawk bar in Lawrence left an 18-year-old dead and a 16-year-old critically hurt with both victims and suspects under 21. Now, records show the bar racked of 60 violations for minors drinking there from 2010 to 2019, though at least 42 got dismissed. After this week, news folks dug into those state records from the Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control, revealing fines totalling up to 11,000, $250 for the upheld cases, plus a 14-day suspension back in 2014. Witnesses in court testify they were underage and sipping drinks inside before the gunfire popped off on January 17th. But it's unclear if the defendants were boozing too. Meanwhile, Cidenclim and DeTron Daniels Strickland, both 18, face heavy charges like murder

1:00and assault after allegedly slipping in through. An unstaffed side door around 11 p.m. the night before. A liquor-law expert broke it down, saying Kansas bars have no strict security mandates beyond not serving minors, and they can dodge violations by. Claiming fake IDs look legit with a photo. Some spots even scan IDs to snap picks as proof. The bar stayed quiet when pressed for comment on any new security tweaks, post-shooting, leaving folks wondering if lessons are sinking in, or if, history is set to repeat.