Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal jury awarded $8.3 million Feb. 4 to the family of 17-year-old Cedric "CJ" Lofton, who died in police custody in 2021.

A federal judge has dropped all counts against the Wichita police officers who arrested 17-year-old Cedric Lofton and left him in a lockup facility where he was fatally restrained in September 2021.

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A federal lawsuit filed over the death of a teen at the Sedgwick County Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center is going to trial next week. Cedric Lofton (Courtesy: Andy Thayer) ...

Sedgwick County will pay $10.3 million to the family of a Wichita teenager who died in custody in 2021.

Day two of deliberations and the civil trial centered on Cedric Lofton's in-custody death is still ongoing. Lofton died in 2021 after having a heart attack while five staff members at the Sedgwick ...

Jurors have awarded $8.3 million to the family of a Kansas foster teen who died in 2021 after he was held facedown for 39 minutes in a juvenile intake center while in the throes of a mental health ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - The death of Cedric "CJ" Lofton is one that still weighs heavily on the Wichita community -- enough to keep grieving supporters reuniting each year in September at his memorial.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Sedgwick County commissioners will decide next week whether to approve a settlement stemming from the in-custody death of Cedric Lofton. The case went to a jury trial in January ...

Sedgwick County commissioners have approved a $10.3 million civil settlement in the 2021 death of 17-year-old Cedric “CJ” Lofton at the county’s juvenile correctional facility. A federal jury found ...