A lengthy legal saga between the city of Topeka and Shawnee County over which must pay the medical bills of a man shot by police will head to trial after a divided Kansas Court of Appeals panel reversed a Shawnee County judge’s ruling Friday.
While on the lam from Colorado authorities, Jesse Dimmick stole a minivan in Geary County on Sept. 25, 2009, and drove east on Interstate 70. After hitting stop sticks deployed by officers, the van came to a stop in the western Shawnee County community of Dover.