Man Charged with Murdering Grandmother

0:00It's April 20th, from your city to your ears. This is Kansas News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. A 25-year-old man from Lawrence faces first-degree murder charges after strangling his 70-year-old grandmother to death last Saturday. Marcus Logan Casela called emergency dispatchers early that morning and confessed to the killing at their shared home in the 2500, block of West 24th Terrace. Officers arrived to find Lynn Audrey Abrams' unresponsive in bed and he was arrested on the spot. This isn't Casela's first run-in with the law. Back in 2020, at 19 years old, he got convicted of aggravated assault after slashing a store clerk with a knife during a wild incident at a Casey's General Store. Just last year, after finishing supervision on that case in April, he faced another battery charge in July, which got pleaded down from felony, aggravated battery, and criminal restraint to a misdemeanor. He's now held on a $1 million bond with his first court appearance set for Monday afternoon,

1:02as authorities dig deeper into what led to this, tragic family violence.