Second person arrested in connection with Dillons shooting that injured two people
A second person has been arrested in connection with last week’s shooting in a northwest Wichita Dillons parking lot that left two people critically injured, records show.
Diego Briceno was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon as well as one count of criminal possession of a firearm by a felon and a drug charge. The address he was arrested at, near First Street North and Pennsylvania, is a law firm.
The 28-year-old Wichita man appears to be the last person police were looking for in connection to the shooting.
Police arrested 18-year-old Iman M. Foye, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, after he was released from the hospital Sunday. Foye and a 21-year-old man, who police have not identified, were critically injured in the shooting.
The 21-year-old was still hospitalized when police sent out a news release Tuesday. Police think the shooting was drug-related.
Police say the incident started just before 2:30 p.m. Feb. 10 after the driver of one of the vehicles involved in the shooting backed into a parking space on the east side of the parking lot at 21st and Maize.
“A male exited the vehicle, removed something from the trunk, then re-entered the car,” Wichita spokesperson Trevor Macy said in a news release. “Later, the other vehicle backed into a stall next to the first one. Shortly after that, gunfire was exchanged between the two vehicles.”
Both vehicles appeared to have bullet holes, Macy said. Police at the scene cordoned off an area that had a car with what appeared to be two bullet holes in the driver’s side window and a shoe on top of the roof.
After the shooting, two men ran into the neighborhood to the east, Macy said.
Foye was one of the two people who ran, but he returned to the parking lot and approached firefighters for help, police said. He also steered firefighters toward the 21-year-old victim, who was found between two vehicles, shot multiple times.
Police on Tuesday said they were looking for a 28-year-old man in connection to the shooting. That man appears to be Briceno.
Briceno has previous convictions in Sedgwick County for aggravated assault, criminal possession of a firearm by a felon and criminal threat, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records. He had nine disciplinary reports, including three for dangerous contraband, during his time in prison, which was less than a year.
He was released from prison in June 2020 and released from parole in December 2020, records show.