Police treat shooting that injured man in ankle as gang-related

Police are considering an early Friday evening shooting in northeast Wichita gang-related.

Wichita police Sgt. Ron Hunt said officers were dispatched at 5:10 p.m. Friday to 26th Street and Jackson, where they found a 19-year-old man who had been shot in the right ankle.

Hunt said five shots were fired at the victim from a car with four male occupants. He said two houses were struck by bullets: one house with three occupants and another with one occupant. The people in the houses were not injured, he said.

He said the four men fled in a “khaki-colored vehicle” after firing the shots.

“There’s not a lot to go on,” Hunt said, adding “we still do believe this to be a gang-related incident.”

He said police are looking for the four men.

Hunt said as of Friday night the victim “was not very cooperative at all with law enforcement.”

The victim’s wound was non-life-threatening, he added.

This story was originally published October 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM with the headline "Police treat shooting that injured man in ankle as gang-related."