Man killed by Wichita police near Bradley Fair had convictions for battering officers
A 36-year-old man killed by Wichita police last month had been sentenced to probation for battering a law enforcement officer, fleeing police and domestic violence six weeks before the standoff that ended with his death, court documents show.
Qiam Ahmadi of Wichita was fatally shot May 23 by a Wichita police officer during an hours-long standoff near 21st Street and Rock Road that authorities said was prompted by a mental health crisis.
Earlier that day, Ahmadi had caused a disturbance at Topgolf Wichita and other businesses near K-96 and Greenwich, then pointed a gun at business employees and passing cars as he moved south and then west, Wichita police said. When officers found Ahmadi and asked him to stop, he ran into a tree line near Wilson Estates on 21st Street, prompting the standoff and a shelter-in-place order for the neighborhood and nearby Bradley Fair shopping center.
When police deployed an armored vehicle, Ahmadi pointed a gun at officers on the vehicle’s platform and an officer on the platform fired his weapon, Wichita police public information officer Andrew Ford said. Ahmadi was struck and returned fire, the KBI said, and the same officer then fired several additional rounds. Ahmadi was pronounced dead at a hospital; no officers were injured.
That was not Ahmadi’s first interaction with law enforcement, court documents show. In April, he was sentenced to two years of probation for felony battery of a law enforcement officer, felony fleeing and eluding an officer and misdemeanor domestic battery. Those crimes happened in McPherson County in October 2024. Ahmadi entered into a deal with prosecutors that dropped additional charges in exchange for his no contest plea, documents show.
At least one entry in Ahmadi’s case file indicates that he was admitted to Larned State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Pawnee County, while his case progressed through the courts. However, at the time of his October 2025 plea, he had “never been determined to be mentally incompetent or mentally ill,” his plea agreement says.
Ahmadi’s convictions barred him from legally possessing a firearm, according to the journal entry of judgment in the case. He was also ordered to get a drug and alcohol evaluation, a batterer intervention program assessment and a mental health evaluation and follow all recommendations “until successfully discharged by a therapist,” his order of probation says.
Previously, Ahmadi had been convicted of misdemeanor crimes in at least three municipal court cases. Those convictions include willful criminal damage to property, which Wichita Municipal Court records show he was charged with after smashing plates and bowls on the ground without the consent of the property owner in July 2023.
It was noted in the court documents for that case that he had been “going to COMCARE and taking his meds.” He was sentenced to a year of probation and was also ordered to continue care at COMCARE and/or the Veterans Administration.
In October 2023, he was accused of battery and interfering with law enforcement after slapping an unnamed man across the face and refusing to identify himself during the subsequent investigation, Wichita Municipal Court records show. He was later convicted.
He also was convicted in 2023 in Bel Aire Municipal Court of two counts of battery against a law enforcement officer and one count of assault of a law enforcement officer, court records show. Details about the crime, including when it happened, were not immediately available from Bel Aire Municipal Court or police.
At the time of his death Ahmadi had two pending Wichita Municipal Court cases. One charged him with three counts of misdemeanor battery after he allegedly threw a rock and at least one brick, “causing scrapes” to a person on April 20 in the 3700 block of East Douglas, near Hillside, according to municipal court records. The other charged him with trespassing at 550 N. Hillside, which is the address for Wesley Medical Center, on May 15.
The circumstances surrounding Ahmadi’s death are still being investigated by the KBI.
