Man Confesses to Killing Grandmother

0:00It's April 18, Kansas News Today starts now. AI powered and ready. I'm Cory with the story. Early Saturday morning in Lawrence, Kansas, police arrested a 25-year-old man named Marcus Casela after he confessed over the phone to, strangling his 70-year-old grandmother to death. Officers rushed to a home southwest of Clinton Parkway and Cressline Drive just before 2 a.m. following his call to dispatchers. They found the grandmother unresponsive in bed, pronounced dead at the scene by fire medical crews while Casela's 24-year-old brother was, safe and unharmed, locked in another bedroom. Casela now faces first-degree murder charges and is held at the Douglas County Correctional Facility. Police are still piecing together what led to this family tragedy, but for now, the suspect remains behind bars as investigators dig deeper.