Oct 18, 2022

DA to consider charges in fatal Kan. restaurant drive-through gunfight

Posted Oct 18, 2022 2:00 PM
Police on the scene of the shooting investigation -photo courtesy KWCH
Police on the scene of the shooting investigation -photo courtesy KWCH

SEDGWICK COUNTY—The Sedgwick County District attorney's office will consider charges against a man in connection with a fatal weekend shooting in a restaurant drive-through.

Just after 11:30p.m. Friday, police were dispatched to the 3600 block of East Harry for a shooting, according to Officer Chad Ditch.

Officers arrived on the scene and located 35-year-old Pleasure Coleman of Wichita unconscious and not breathing.

Police began providing life-saving efforts until EMS arrived. Coleman was pronounced deceased on the scene.

The investigation revealed that Coleman had a verbal altercation in a local drive-through with a 31-year-old man. That argument would turn physical at which point Coleman and the 31-year-old man exchanged gunfire at each other. Coleman was struck in his upper body.

Police took the 31-year-old man  into custody on the scene. He was not booked into jail, according to Ditch. Police have not released his identity. Coleman and the suspect are not known to each other.