SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting that sent one man to the hospital.
Just before 3:30 a.m. Thursday, police responded to a shooting call in the 400 block of S. Walnut in Wichita, according to Officer Trevor Macy.
Multiple 911 callers reported hearing gunshots in the area. Another 911 caller reported a suspect was breaking into their car armed with a knife and was shot by the caller’s husband.
Officers arrived in the area and contacted a 41-year-old man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. EMS transported the man to an area hospital for treatment.
Officers contacted the 29-year-old male resident who reported hearing noises outside his house and seeing the 41-year-old underneath his pickup truck. He retrieved a handgun and went outside to talk to the suspect when the 41-year-old got up from under the truck with a cordless saw operating in his hand and moved toward the 29-year-old, who then fired his handgun, striking the suspect.
The suspect remains hospitalized, according to Macy.