Two people arrested in road-rage shooting that hit a 4-year-old boy

Three people suspected of being in a car that was involved in a road rage attack in north Wichita that sent a 4-year-old boy to the hospital with a gunshot wound were arrested on Wednesday, police say.

A Ford Mustang carrying the three who were arrested and a Chevy Tahoe carrying nine people got into a “road rage incident” near 29th North and Broadway that led to a shooting near 13th and Topeka, Wichita police Officer Charley Davidson said Thursday.

The 4-year-old boy, one of six children under the age of 10 inside the Tahoe, was hit with one bullet in the stomach, Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay said Wednesday. Three adults in their 20s were also in the Tahoe at the time, police said.

The incident started near 29th North and Broadway and stretched several blocks. In the 1200 block of North Topeka, police say 19-year-old Tylin Atkinson got out of the Mustang and fired two shots at the Tahoe.

The boy who was shot in the attack is in stable condition, Davidson said.

Atkinson and Ramonyka Smith, who is suspected of driving the Mustang, were booked into Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of aggravated battery and unlawful discharge of a firearm into an occupied vehicle, Davidson said.

Travon Coleman, 21, also suspected to be in the vehicle at the time, was arrested on an unrelated outstanding warrant.

Police found Smith and Coleman in the Mustang near Ninth and Volutsia. Atkinson was arrested at a residence in the 1100 block of North Hydraulic.

Davidson said police have been getting an average of two to three road rage incidents involving a firearm a week in Wichita of late.

This story was originally published October 18, 2018 at 11:33 AM.