TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A man already serving prison time for wounding a Marshall County, Kansas deputy goes on trial in the shooting death of a Topeka man.
Stephen Macomber is also charged with robbing a Nebraska bank.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the first-degree murder trial of Stephen Macomber.
He’s charged in the June 2010 shooting death of 26-year-old Ryan Lofton in Topeka.
Prosecutors say after Macomber shot Lofton, he shot and wounded a Marshall County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop in Blue Rapids and then held an elderly woman hostage during a standoff with police. He’s serving 83 years in prison for those crimes.
Macomber plans to defend himself during his Shawnee County trial, but the court appointed an attorney to assist him.