SEDGWICK COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Kansas woman in connection with a fatal shooting.
Just before 4:30 p.m. Friday, police were dispatched to 13th Street North and Oliver Avenue for a shooting call, according to officer Paul Cruz. Upon arriving, they located 54-year-old Merrill Rabus of Wichita unconscious and receiving life-saving measures.
Rabus had undetermined injuries, including what appeared to be a single gunshot wound. He was transported to an area hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
The investigation revealed Rabus was on his bicycle at the intersection of 13th Street North and Oliver Avenue when he was struck by a white Plymouth van driven by 31-year-old Charity Blackmon.
Blackmon then got out of her vehicle and fired a shot from a handgun, striking Rabus. Blackmon fled the scene and was followed by witnesses who provided her location. She was located and arrested at 14th Street North and Green Street by a Wichita State University police officer, according to Cruz.
Blackmon and Rabus were not known to each other. Officers also recovered a handgun through this investigation.
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a bicyclist is dead after a woman struck him with her van as he crossed a Wichita street and then apparently shot him.
Charity Charmon Blackmon, 31, was booked into jail Friday night on suspicion of first-degree murder, driving with a suspended license, unsafe turning or stopping and failure to give proper signal.
Wichita police chief Gordon Ramsay said the victim was either riding or walking his bicycle when he was hit Friday afternoon. Ramsay said the initial reports were that the suspect got out to shoot the man after the crash.
Ramsay said police would know definitively if he was shot after an autopsy. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released.