Dec 06, 2022

Sheriff: 13-year-old among two dead at Kansas home

Posted Dec 06, 2022 12:00 AM

DOUGLAS COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities investigating a fatal shooting have identified the victims as 55-year-old David M. Koch and his 13-year-old daughter, Hayden Koch.

Just after 7 a.m. Monday deputies were called to the residence in the 700 block of E 1550 Road southeast of Lawrence for a possible shooting, according to sheriff's department spokesman George Diepenbrock.


Deputies arrived on the scene and spoke with the reporting party and located two bodies inside the home. The bodies were those of Koch and his daughter.

 Initial information and evidence indicates Hayden died as the result of a gunshot wound and that David Koch died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The reporting party was uninjured.