A Manhattan man accused of killing an infant submitted a plea of not guilty at his arraignment Monday in Riley County District Court.
D’Khari Lyons was arrested in 2018 following the death of his former girlfriend’s 2-month-old son. She testified in February that she found her son unresponsive in November after leaving him in Lyons’ care while taking her older children to school. He died in Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City a few days later. In an affidavit, a medical examiner writes that the child died from abusive head trauma and that some of his injuries could only be explained by vigorous shaking.
Riley County District Judge Meryl Wilson set a motions hearing for May 17 at 9 a.m. Lyons’ trial is scheduled for September 23 and is expected to last 5 days.
