Sheriff’s Office seeks help solving drive-by shooting at K-42 Estates

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying the person or people responsible for a drive-by shooting Saturday in a housing development known as K-42 Estates, at 55th Street South and K-42.

Lt. Lin Dehning said a family was home in the 16700 block of West Princeton Lane when two or three rounds were fired from a road west of the property at about 10:30 p.m.

One bullet penetrated an exterior wall of the home, traveled into a bedroom and lodged in a bed. Another round pierced the radiator of a vehicle sitting outside the house and struck its engine block.

Dehning said a 34-year-old man was working in the home’s detached garage at the time of the shooting but didn’t realize the pops he heard were gunfire until his 57-year-old father rushed out of the house to check on his welfare. His 58-year-old mother, 29-year-old sister and two children – an 8-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl – also were inside the house when the shooting occurred.

“It was a very dangerous situation,” Dehning said. “ … With a bullet traveling through a house that far, it’s a good thing nobody got hurt.”

Sheriff’s investigators are trying to determine whether the home was targeted, Dehning said Wednesday. Anyone with information can call the Sheriff’s Office’s investigations unit at 316-660-5300 or Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111.

“We don’t have a vehicle description. These folks live right along a main road so a car driving by really didn’t register with anyone, but the gunshots did,” Dehning said.

“After extensive interviews with these people, we just can’t come up with any case suspect or any reason why anybody would want to shoot at them and their house.”

This story was originally published March 18, 2015 at 1:14 PM with the headline "Sheriff’s Office seeks help solving drive-by shooting at K-42 Estates."