Jan 22, 2025

Sentencing Day for Kan. murder a week after release from prison

Posted Jan 22, 2025 12:00 PM
Miles photo Sedgwick County
Miles photo Sedgwick County

SEDGWICK COUNTY—A Kansas felon found guilty in a fatal shooting that occurred just days after his release from prison is scheduled for sentencing Wednesday before Judge Jeffrey Goering, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.

Jeremy Miles, 36, Wichita, was charged with 1st degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

Just before 11a.m. Aug. 30, 2023, police were dispatched to a reported shooting at an apartment complex in the 2000 block of S. Seneca in Wichita, according to Officer Kris Gupilan. 

First responders  located 69-year-old James Gibson of Wichita with gunshot wounds inside an apartment. He was pronounced deceased at the scene.  

Police  arrested Miles and jailed him on a bond of $500,000. He has three previous convictions for aggravated robbery and one for criminal possession of a weapon by a felon and had been placed on In-State Post Release just a week before the murder, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.