Teens arrested after Facebook deal ended in gunfire outside Wichita QuikTrip
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- Police have arrested two teens linked to a Wichita convenience store shooting Wednesday.
- A Facebook Marketplace deal between teens and Northwest High School students escalated to violence.
- Northwest High initiated lockdown protocols following the parking lot shooting.
Police have arrested two teenagers in connection with a lunchtime shooting outside a northwest Wichita convenience store that left the nearby high school on lockdown Wednesday.
Authorities traced the teens, who fled after the shooting, to El Dorado, where they were taken into custody and taken back to Wichita for questioning, Wichita police said in a news release.
One, an 18-year-old man, was later booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The other, a 17-year-old male, was jailed on suspicion of misdemeanor theft, police said.
Police gave new details Thursday morning about the shooting, which occurred outside of the QuikTrip store at 8723 W. 13th St. after five female Northwest High School students met the teen suspects there for a Facebook Marketplace deal.
Police say the girls were buying items from the teens, whom one girl knew. But after the exchange, the Northwest students and the teen suspects got into a fight inside a bathroom.
“The altercation moved to the parking lot of the convenience store, where the 18-year-old male produced a handgun and fired one round in the air to scare the females away,” the police news release said. The shooting was reported around 12:30 p.m.
No one received life-threatening injuries.
But the gunfire prompted extra security precautions at nearby Northwest High School, 1220 N. Tyler Road, including a brief lockdown and then a “lock in” where students could only enter the building through the main doors.
Police did not answer questions Thursday about what the girls were buying from the suspects and what they fought about leading up to the shooting, saying that information was “part of the investigation.”
The suspects are not Northwest students, Wichita police spokesman Brad Wright said by email.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Wichita police investigators at 316-268-4407 or submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111 or online at www.wichitasedgwickcountycrimestoppers.com.
Wichita Public Schools allows high school juniors and seniors to partake in an open lunch — meaning the students can leave their school campus for the 40-minute lunch period. There are no limits on how students spend that period. They just have to be back in time for class.
Building principals can rescind or modify the open lunch period for individuals or groups at any time, the policy says.
Contributing: Lindsay Smith of The Eagle
This story was originally published September 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM.
