A judge has named a former Kansas attorney general to represent a high school football player who is charged in a shooting that wounded an administrator and school resource officer at a suburban Kansas City high school.
Jaylon Elmore, 18, was charged Saturday with attempted capital murder in Friday's shooting at Olathe East High School. The charge carries a sentence of life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years.
Johnson County Judge Dan Vokins said during a Zoom hearing Monday that his attorney will be Paul Morrison, who served in the Sebelius administrations until he resigned in 2008 amid an extramarital affair scandal. He is also the former district attorney for Johnson County.
Elmore, who was wounded when the school resource officer returned fire, was unable to attend the hearing because he remains hospitalized.
