KS man who ‘would not allow’ breakup is going to prison for killing Wichita girlfriend
A Kansas man was ordered Monday to serve 30 years, four months in prison for killing one of his girlfriends at her southeast Wichita apartment after she tried to end their relationship.
Dennis Leroy Alcox, 39, pleaded guilty in October to voluntary manslaughter in the Feb. 22 shooting death of 26-year-old Audreanna Ohshay Marie Hidalgo at Garden Pines Apartments, 8131 E. Harry, near Rock Road. He also pleaded guilty to an offender registration violation. Alcox originally faced a first-degree murder charge but that was amended as part of his plea deal with prosecutors, court records show.
Wichita police found Hidalgo dead on her couch from a single gunshot wound while responding to a 911 call about shots fired shortly before 2 a.m. A friend of Hidalgo’s told police the couple had been dating for around three months but were “constantly ‘fussing and fighting,’” court records say. The friend said Hidalgo had tried but couldn’t end the relationship because Alcox “would not allow it” and that she had taken steps to protect herself, including changing the passcode on her phone and asking her apartment manager for new door locks.
In the days before her killing, Hidalgo and Alcox “were embroiled in an argument over text” in which he said he hated her, “accused her of not being loyal to him” and told her “we pay the price of being disloyal but it’s the ultimate payout in life for loyalty!” according to the records.
The night of the killing, Alcox drove from Junction City to Hidalgo’s apartment and shot her in the head before cutting off an electronic monitoring bracelet he’d been ordered to wear in a prior case and returning to Junction City, the records say.
At the time, Alcox was staying in Junction City with a different, long-term girlfriend; that girlfriend told police Alcox was in her bed when she went to sleep around 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 21 but was gone and had taken her car when she got up in the middle of the night. He was back in bed with her when her alarm rang at 4:30 a.m., court records say.
Junction City is about a two-hour drive northwest of Wichita.
Authorities identified Alcox as the shooter using eyewitness descriptions from Hidalgo’s neighbors and by tracking his movements using the Flock camera system and GPS monitoring on his ankle bracelet, a probable cause affidavit released in the case says.
Wichita police have previously called the killing “a case of intimate partner violence,” which is a type of domestic violence.
Sedgwick County District Judge Jeffrey Goering handed down the 363-month sentence, DA’s Office spokesman Dan Dillon said.
