FORD COUNTY — The Dodge City Police is investigating a deadly shooting at a bar and grill in Dodge City have extradited the suspect to a jail in Kansas.
According to online jail records, 36-year-old Ricardo Cadena-Garcia is now being held in the Ford County Jail after an arrest in Beaver, County Oklahoma.
Just after 1 a.m., Sunday 911 calls were placed reporting shots being fired at Central Station Bar and Grill, 207 E. Wyatt Earp Blvd., in Dodge City. When officers from the Dodge City Police Department and deputies from the Ford County Sheriff’s Office arrived they found four men who had suffered gunshot wounds.
Preliminary information indicates that an altercation occurred and Cadena-Garcia used a small caliber handgun to shoot and kill two
Police identified the victims as 28-year=old Abraham Morales-Santos, and 29-year-old Antonio A. Cabrera both of Dodge City, according to a media release from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
A 40-year-old shooting victim was hospitalized in Wichita. The fourth victim who was 27-years-old, was treated and released from the hospital.
Kansas authorities tracked Cadena-Garcia as he fled into Oklahoma. The Beaver County Sheriff’s Office sent deputies to search the area. They located Cadena-Garcia’s white Dodg Ram pickup 1.5 miles outside of Forgan, Oklahoma, according to the KBI.
The truck was disabled due to a blown front tire. Cadena-Garcia was waiting for assistance from an area tire shop when deputies approached his truck. He was arrested without incident.