The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Saturday in Wichita.

 

Wichita police responded to several 911 calls Saturday between 3 p.m. and 4:35 p.m. reporting a male subject causing disturbances at several businesses in the area of K-96 and Greenwich. Callers described an armed man pointing his firearm at business employees and several vehicles.

Officers eventually located the man barricaded in a tree line near a residential area. They established a perimeter and negotiators attempted to communicate with him for several hours. 

 

Preliminary information indicates that the subject pointed his firearm toward officers who were on a platform of the tactical vehicle. One officer from WPD fired his weapon striking the man. The subject returned fire, and the same officer then fired multiple additional rounds.

 

Life-saving measures were attempted, and the man was transported to an area hospital. He was later pronounced deceased at the hospital. No law enforcement officers were injured during the incident.

 

Authorities are still working to contact the man's next of kin to notify them of his death.

 

The investigation remains ongoing.