SHAWNEE COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a weekend bar shooting in Topeka.
Just after 2:30 a.m. Saturday, a Topeka Police officer was flagged down by the staff of 45th Street Bar, 4601 SW Topeka Blvd. about a disturbance occurring inside. As the officer pulled into the bar, he observed numerous patrons running out of the business and yelling, “Shots fired," according to Lt. Manuel Munoz.
The officer requested emergency back up to his location. As those officers were arriving, they observed a security officer detaining an individual at gunpoint outside in the parking lot. The individual was taken into custody without incident.
Officers were then told by people leaving the business that there was a male victim shot.
The officers located an individual who was suffering injuries that resulted from a fight inside, but not from being shot. The individual did not wish to file a report and was uncooperative. Officers talked to several patrons, but no additional victims were located. Officers did recover a handgun near where the individual that was taken into custody.
During the course of the investigation, officers determined that the subject in their custody, later identified as 29-year-old William Kevon Elmore of Topeka had been involved in an altercation while inside the business.
During the incident, the Elmore fired a gun and was later detained outside by security. Police transported Elmore to the Shawnee County Department of Corrections and booked him on requested charges of Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Criminal Discharge of a Firearm within City Limits.
Later in the day, officers were called to a local hospital in reference a victim who had arrived suffering from not life threatening gunshot wound. During the investigation, it was determined that the victim had been at the 45th Street Bar when the altercation took place.
The victim was shot during the incident and ran out from the establishment and later went to the hospital for treatment. As a result of Sunday's investigation, an additional requested charge of Aggravated Battery was added to Elmore, who remains in custody.