Video shows armed robbery of west Wichita gas station and arrest of suspect

Wichita police released surveillance and drone footage showing the Jan. 2 armed robbery of a west Wichita gas station and then the arrest of a man nearby.

Charles Scott Jr., 46, who remains jailed since his arrest, was charged Jan. 6 with aggravated robbery armed with a dangerous weapon.

The robbery happened at 5:21 a.m. at the gas station at 1254 South Tyler, which is just off of Kellogg. A large sign near the road says Phillips 66, but a sign on the door of the gas station indicates it is a Circle K.

The video police released Wednesday shows a man open the business’s front door and immediately turn a black and silver handgun sideways and point it at the clerk. Police previously said the man was given money from the register before he took off west on a bicycle.

Police arrived a few minutes after the call.

Just west of Tyler, police found a bicycle “that appeared to have crashed” and an officer “deployed a drone and quickly spotted a man hopping fences in the neighborhood west of the gas station,” police previously said.

“Officers moved in, took the suspect into custody, and recovered cash from his pocket,” police previously said. “Officers also found clothing and a gun matching the description nearby along his path of travel.”

Scott was released from prison in January 2024 and had his parole end in June 2024, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records.

He has 17 previous convictions, all in Sedgwick County, KDOC records show. Those include 10 convictions from three cases in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and then seven convictions from four cases in 2019 and 2023.

The convictions include one case of non-firearm criminal possession of a weapon by a felon, 10 convictions for forgery, a couple charges each of drug-related crimes and aggravated escape from custody and then one case each of theft and burglary. He has 39 disciplinary reports from his time in Kansas prisons, records show.