Sheriff’s office arrests two in connection with shots fired into Garden Plain house
The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two Cheney residents accused of shooting at a Garden Plain home after a drug deal.
The shooting happened in Garden Plain, a city six miles west of Goddard, on Thursday night, a press release from the sheriff’s office read. Deputies of the local police department were alerted just before 10 p.m. that shots had been fired into an occupied home.
Four people were in the house, in the 300 block of West Lavern Lane, when the shooting happened. No one reported injuries, the press release said.
The initial investigation by detectives with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office indicated that one of the people inside the house was the intended target of the shooting. That person, the sheriff’s office press release said, had been involved in a drug deal with the shooting suspects where counterfeit money was used.
“Detectives believe the suspects then followed the victim back to his home and fired shots into the occupied house,” the release read.
A 20-year-old and a 16-year-old were taken into custody on Saturday. The Wichita Eagle does not name people who have been arrested unless they are formally charged.
Both are residents of Cheney and were arrested on suspicion of criminal discharge of a firearm into an occupied dwelling, the sheriff’s office confirmed. The investigation into the shooting is still ongoing.
