A 32-year-old man will face a jury for the fatal shooting of Kelly Black in east Wichita in July 2025 after a Sedgwick County judge ruled that prosecutors presented enough evidence to proceed to trial.
Andrew Roman Presley pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon after waiving his arraignment at the Aug. 25 hearing, according to KSN. A jury trial is set to begin Oct. 20 in Sedgwick County District Court.
Black, 32, was shot just before 6 p.m. on July 6, 2025, in the 7000 block of East Lincoln, near Lincoln Street and Governeour Road. Wichita police officers found him lying on the ground with a gunshot wound, according to a Wichita Police Department news release. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead.
A detective's affidavit states Presley shot Black during an argument. Presley was on parole at the time.
Flock cameras, cellphone data cited in affidavit
The affidavit cites Flock camera footage and cellphone location data placing Presley in the area at the time of the shooting. Wichita police arrested Presley later that month after a brief standoff in Hutchinson, where the Hutchinson Police Department took him into custody.
The city's network of more than 190 Flock Safety cameras, deployed starting in 2020, captures roughly 900,000 vehicle photographs per month, according to KCUR. The AI-powered license plate readers log vehicle details into a searchable database that can be shared with other law enforcement agencies. In a separate May 2026 homicide near Emery Gardens, Wichita police said Flock cameras captured the suspect vehicle and helped lead to an arrest.
The technology is also the subject of a pending constitutional challenge. The Kansas Justice Institute filed a lawsuit in Sedgwick County District Court on behalf of Wichita resident Mason Grimmett, arguing the program amounts to warrantless dragnet surveillance. Litigation director Sam MacRoberts told KCUR on July 30 that Grimmett "is a law-abiding citizen trapped in Wichita's warrantless ALPR dragnet surveillance program … He's done absolutely nothing wrong, but he's still being tracked, monitored and databased. That's unconstitutional."
Anyone with information about violent crimes in Wichita can contact the Wichita Police Department at 316-268-4407 or Crime Stoppers at 316-267-2111.
