Man shot by Wichita police after beating woman is sentenced for DV, other crimes
A Wichita man who was shot by police after beating and choking a woman last summer has been sentenced for domestic violence and other crimes.
Daniel James Gabor, 32, was sentenced to 100 months in prison plus 12 months in jail on Thursday by Sedgwick County District Judge Kevin Mark Smith, Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lyndsee Stover said. Gabor will serve the prison and jail terms concurrently, or at the same time, she said.
After he is released from prison, Gabor will be supervised for three additional years, Stover said.
Gabor pleaded no contest in January to aggravated domestic battery, domestic battery, violating a protection order and interfering with law enforcement in the case involving the woman’s assault, court records show. He also pleaded no contest to aggravated robbery, aggravated domestic battery and multiple counts of violating a protective order in a separate case.
A Wichita police officer shot Gabor twice in the upper arm around 4:30 a.m. on June 20, 2025, after Gabor refused to get out of a car where he was strangling a woman and tried to drive off, a probable cause affidavit says. Police responded to the area where the car was parked, in the 4600 block of West 37th Street South, after 911 received an “open line” emergency call where a dispatcher could hear the woman crying as a man told her: “I don’t have anything to live for” and “Don’t lie to me, I don’t like hurting you,” the affidavit says.
Gabor drove off after he was shot.
Police later found Gabor, the car and the woman in the 2400 block of South West Street. Gabor was arrested after receiving treatment at a hospital.
The woman told police Gabor had punched her head, hit her, pulled a chunk of hair from her scalp and choked her before officers arrived and that she had called 911 so he wouldn’t kill her, the affidavit says. Gabor told police that he had pushed up against the woman to take a knife away from her and also to make her return a pair of his eyeglasses.
He has a history of domestic violence with the woman, court records show.
This story was originally published March 6, 2026 at 1:24 PM.
