Teen turns himself in, faces murder charge in fatal north Wichita shooting

A 17-year-old Wichita boy was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder Thursday night after he turned himself in at the jail in connection to a fatal shooting earlier in the night, police said Friday.

The boy was also arrested on suspicion of criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle in the fatal shooting, which killed 20-year-old Jaden Wilson of Wichita. He died at the scene.

“A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim and the suspect were acquainted and involved in an ongoing dispute, the specifics of which remain under investigation,” police spokesperson Andrew Ford said in a news release.

Police were flagged down at 5:31 p.m. Thursday to a shooting that happened in a smoke shop parking lot in the 2200 block of North Grove.

The boy was arrested at 7:41 p.m., according to police records.

The officer who was flagged down reported seeing a possible suspect running away south on Grove, according to Sedgwick County 911 Emergency Communications scanner traffic.

Wilson was found outside of a Buick, which had apparent multiple bullet holes in the windshield, with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body, Ford said.

“A witness in the vehicle at the time of the incident was able to provide officers with details that quickly led to the quick identification of the suspect,” he said.

Wilson was pronounced dead by EMS at 5:46 p.m., about 15 minutes after the officer was first flagged down.

This is at least the city’s 14th homicide so far this year, according to police reports. There were seven at this time last year.