Wichita police on Thursday, Nov. 5, identified Anthony Lear, 19, of Wichita as the man killed in a shooting the previous day.
Officers responded to a shooting at approximately 11:17 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 4, in the 1800 block of South George Washington Boulevard Court, according to a Wichita Police Department statement. When they arrived, they found Lear suffering from a gunshot wound.
Wichita Fire Department and Sedgwick County EMS personnel treated Lear at the scene. He was then transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:05 p.m., the department said.
The shooting took place in a cul-de-sac near Mount Vernon Street and George Washington Boulevard, KSN-TV reported.
Police said their preliminary investigation indicates a disturbance occurred between people who knew each other in the street before shots were fired. The department’s statement did not provide further details about the disturbance.
Those involved in the incident and witnesses remained at the scene and were interviewed by detectives, according to the department's statement. Wichita Police Department Capt. Aaron Moses told KSN-TV on Nov. 4 that officers would be on scene "for some time collecting evidence and conducting interviews to figure out exactly what happened out here."
Police did not announce an arrest in their Nov. 5 statement. The department said the investigation remains active.
Once the investigation is complete, the case will be presented to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office for review, police said.
