Authorities in Great Bend are investigating a weekend shooting that took the life of a 17-year-old girl.

 

Just after midnight on Friday night/Saturday morning, Great Bend Police were called to a residence on the east side of the city following a 9-1-1 hang up call. Upon arrival, officers found the body of a 17-year-old girl identified as Erin Smith. Smith was dead from an apparent gunshot wound. An investigation identified a suspect in the shooting as 19-year-old Keegan Martens. Witnesses told police that the suspect had fled the scene after the shooting.

 

Martens was later located in Salina and taken into custody. He was then taken to the Barton County Jail in Great Bend.

 

The case remains under investigation by the Great Bend Police with the assistance of the Barton County Sheriff's Office, the Kansas Highway Patrol, and the Salina Police Department.