Reports Friday morning of a Topeka man arrested near Manhattan for attempting to detonate a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley brings the national spotlight a little too close to home… and one of KMAN’s own reporters, Mikayla Gentine, actually knows the suspect–20 year old John T. Booker, Jr. An interview with KMAN News Director Cathy Dawes follows:
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