Police: Man dead after woman hit him with vehicle and fired shot at 13th and Oliver

A woman was arrested after hitting a man with her vehicle and then apparently shooting him Friday afternoon at 13th and Oliver, Wichita police chief Gordon Ramsay said.

An autopsy will tell definitively if he was shot, Ramsay said.

CPR was given to the man, but he died.

Ramsay said initial reports were that after the Wichita woman hit the man, who was either riding or walking with his bicycle across the street, she got out to shoot him. The incident was reported to police at 4:25 p.m.

Witnesses told The Eagle that the suspect was driving a white van, facing east on 13th, and reversed into a Church’s Chicken at the corner and then headed north on Oliver. Several people followed the suspect and provided information, Ramsay said.

“We’re not sure if they know each other,” Ramsay said, or “what caused this whole thing.”

Friends Martin Dwyer and Ian Weber, both 20, were headed east on 13th and saw the van reversing toward them and saw the man on the ground. Weber pulled off the road. Dwyer ran up to the man.

“People were trying to take his pulse, people were trying to tell him to keep his eyes open,” Dwyer said. “I started talking to him ... he was there, and then he wasn’t.”

Stacy and Ashley Fisher were also driving east on 13th when they heard a big bang, that Stacy says was a gunshot. They pulled into a business at the corner, and Stacy ran up to the man.

“Sir, sir, sir,” he remembers saying as the man was sprawled out in the road, but the man was dead.

Boots, clothing and a bicycle with a basket were strewn on 13th just west of the intersection at Oliver. An officer stood near the items while standing over a cone that Stacy Fisher said was marking a bullet.

The suspect was arrested around 4:40 p.m. near 14th and Poplar, according to 911 emergency communications.

This story was originally published March 26, 2021 at 4:43 PM.