Lawrence police video shows chase ending in murder suspect arrest

Lawrence police have reposted video of the chase that ended with the arrest of Rodney Ericson Marshall, a violent sequence that put officers and motorists at risk as gunfire rang out during a pursuit through central Lawrence and onto Kansas Highway 10.

The footage captures patrol cars moving fast through town while officers yell, “Shots fired!” Police said Marshall, then 51, was taken into custody early July 31, 2022, after a roughly 20-minute chase that started in Lawrence and headed eastbound onto K-10, ending just east of Eudora’s Church Street exit. The scene shows how quickly the case escalated from a homicide investigation into a public-safety emergency.

The chase was tied to shootings that left two men dead in separate locations in central Lawrence that same day: Shelby Len McCoy, 52, and William Dale O’Brien, 43. Prosecutors later said Marshall fired at five law enforcement officers during the pursuit, turning the road into an active threat zone for officers trying to stop him and for anyone else on the highway.

Marshall was charged the next day with two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted capital murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder. Douglas County District Court Judge Amy Hanley sealed the probable cause affidavit, limiting access to the initial account that helped drive the case forward in its earliest hours.

The case remained in the spotlight for years because the video captured the danger in real time and because the killings stunned Lawrence. In May 2026, a jury found Marshall, now 55, guilty of murdering the two men and of attempting to murder law enforcement officers, bringing a long-running Douglas County case to a decisive close.