Shooter targeted home in fatal shooting near Central, McLean, police say

The Wichita woman killed in an early morning shooting Thursday wasn’t the shooter’s intended target, Wichita police said.

The shooter walked up to a house in the 700 block of North Edwards and fired several shots into it at around 3:40 a.m., Capt. Brent Allred said. A 37-year-old woman was found dead of a gunshot wound in the living room of the house.

Allred did say the shooter targeted the home. The shooting is not believed to be gang related.

There were three men inside the home at the time – ages 43, 46 and 49 – who were taken to City Hall for questioning. Police have not made any arrests and said the public is not in danger.

Allred said some of the four people in the house were awake at the time of the shooting, but it wasn’t immediately known what occurred before the shooting.

A neighbor told The Eagle that he heard five or six shots. He didn’t hear anything before the shooting, he said. About 25 minutes after the shooting, he said police knocked on his door.

Investigators found shell casings outside the home. At least a dozen evidence markers were scattered in the yard to the side of the house near two windows.

This story was originally published January 25, 2018 at 6:19 AM with the headline "Shooter targeted home in fatal shooting near Central, McLean, police say."