A father in Kansas shot his wife in the chest during a
“domestic dispute”
while dropping their kids off at elementary school, causing the school to go into lockdown, per the NY Post.
After dropping off their children at Cessna Elementary School in Wichita on Monday morning, the man reportedly shot his wife in the chest. Classes at the school start at 9 a.m., and the police were called at 9:15 a.m. about the shooting. Witnesses saw the man pull out a gun and shoot his wife near the Lyft ride they had ordered to take their family to school.
“She then ran toward the school for help. He chased her,”
Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter told KAKE News.
“At the point that our deputy arrived, he had the gun pointing at her head.”
Easter reported that the deputy took cover until the man moved far enough away from the woman, and then fired two shots at him. The man was arrested and taken to the hospital in critical condition. The woman is also in critical condition.
School staff quickly brought all the children inside and locked down the building. Police informed the community that there was no active shooter threat in the elementary school.
“This is a [domestic violence]-related shooting that happened outside the school. There was no school shooting whatsoever,”
Easter told local outlet, Wichita Eagle.
“Unfortunately, sometimes these things manifest around neighborhoods where there are schools […] I know for parents it can be scary. But the fact of the matter is law enforcement showed up within two minutes of the shooting coming out, and it never got into the school itself where the kids were in danger.”
#Clique, what are your thoughts?
