By SALINA POST
Salina Police Department officers are investigating a double homicide and have a registered Kansas violent offender in custody.
According to a media release, SPD officers were dispatched to a domestic disturbance at a home in the 700 block of Vassar Drive in Salina just after 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
First responders located two women in the driveway of the home who were deceased due to an apparent homicide.
Moments later, officers located the suspect, later identified as 35-year-old Preston James Reyna a couple blocks from the scene and took him into custody without incident.
Reyna, of Salina, is being held on requested charges that include two counts of first degree murder, two counts of Aggravated DV Battery, Aggravated Kidnapping, two counts of DV Battery, and DV Damage to Property.
Reyna has been listed as a registered offender since 2014 after a 2009 conviction in Saline County for second-degree murder. According to the Associated Press, Reyna was to be evaluated at Larned State Hospital after he pleaded guilty to unintentional second-degree murder in the death of Nicolas Chavez Castro. He beat Castro to death with a board.
During trial, Reyna's mother, Rosalinda Reyna, testified that on the day Castro was killed, she was trying to get someone to help her get her son to the Salina Regional Health Center. Prosecutors say Castro was killed because Reyna mistakenly believed he had kidnapped and raped his mother. Reyna has been previously been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Salina Post will update this story as new information becomes available.