SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting that sent a man to the hospital.
Just after 9a.m. Sunday police responded to a domestic violence with a weapon call in the 400 block of W 45th Street North in Wichita, according to Officer Trevor Macy.
A 911 caller reported a 38-year-old male suspect threatened family members with a gun and retreated into a shed on the property.
Officers arrived and attempted to contact the suspect, and were able to contact him by phone but he refused to come out of the shed.
Police negotiators were called in to assist with communicating with him. Multiple avenues of communication were attempted but the suspect remained in the shed, and eventually the SWAT team was called to assist.
After the SWAT team arrived, attempts continued to communicate with the suspect and resolve the situation peacefully.
Eventually, the suspect began firing shots from inside the shed. He fired multiple shots, one of which struck a Wichita police vehicle. A single round was fired from a Wichita police officer, striking the suspect and incapacitating him. He was then removed from the shed and transported to an area hospital by EMS in critical but stable condition – he is expected to survive, according to Macy.