Updated: Police say man, 41, was fatally shot by girlfriend at south-side business
Updated 3:53 p.m.: Wichita police arrested a 45-year-old woman in the fatal shooting of a man found dead at a south-side business early Tuesday morning.
Stacey Jeanie Peters of Haysville has been arrested on suspicion of committing the second-degree murder of her longtime boyfriend, Officer Charley Davidson said by email. She was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, online jail records show.
The man was not identified by police Tuesday.
Davidson said during the investigation into the killing, police learned that Peters was in a relationship with the slain man, 41. While the couple were at the “warehouse-type facility” in the 3000 block of South Hillside, “Peters fired a handgun at the male, striking him,” the email said. Officers found the gun at the scene.
It’s still unclear what led up to the shooting or whether the couple had a violent past. Police responded to an emergency call at the building about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Peters leases space for her Ebay auction business at the facility, in the 3000 block of South Hillside, near Pawnee. Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred said the couple had been in a romantic relationship for a few years.
The killing is the city’s 27th criminal homicide of the year and the 34th homicide overall. Criminal homicides do not include accidental, self defense, justified or police-involved shootings.
Original story: A 41-year-old man was found shot to death early Tuesday morning in the 3000 block of South Hillside. His name was not immediately released.
Wichita police Capt. Brent Allred said officers responding to a 911 call about a possible home invasion at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday found the man dead inside a building when they arrived at the address. The building used to house a tire warehouse and has space leased to a small business owner, Allred said.
The man had one gunshot wound to his body.
Police on Tuesday were working to learn more about what happened leading up to the shooting and who pulled the trigger. Currently the killing is being investigated as a homicide, Allred said Tuesday.
A 45-year-old woman who rents space in the building to run her Ebay auction business was at the address when police showed up. Officers also found a handgun there.
“We’re out interviewing additional people as we speak to gather all the facts to try to put this together,” Allred said.
He said police don’t know yet if the man was shot in self defense.
“We know that the individual that was fatally shot was inside the business. We’re still trying to determine whether it was forced entry or not into that business.”
Police are asking anyone with information about the case to call detectives at 316-268-4407, the See Something Say Something Hotline at 316-519-2282 or Wichita-Sedgwick County Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111.
This story was originally published November 19, 2019 at 1:02 PM.
