SEDGWICK COUNTY– Detectives with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office are investigating an aggravated kidnapping that followed a domestic violence call early June 20, in southwest Wichita.
Just before 4:30 a.m., the Sedgwick County Emergency Communications received a 911 call with a woman screaming in the background. The open-line call was traced to a moving location, and Wichita police officers were dispatched to what sounded like an active disturbance without a specific location.
By 4:30 a.m., the phone’s signal stopped in the 4600 block of West 37th Street South, where officers responded.
Officers found a vehicle stopped along the side of the street and saw a man later identified as 31-year-old Daniel James Gabor assaulting a woman in the front seat. During the encounter, an officer fired two rounds, striking the Gabor in the upper arm. Gabor then drove off with the woman still inside the vehicle.
He later crashed in a construction area near K-42 highway and West Street. Officers responded, provided medical aid, and Sedgwick County EMS transported Gaabor to a Wichita hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers also assisted the woman, who sustained minor injuries but declined transport to a medical facility by EMS.
Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Investigations Division are actively investigating both the officer-involved shooting and the original disturbance. Investigators are treating the two incidents as separate but related cases.
Detectives confirmed that Gabor and woman were in a domestic relationship. Gabor has a 2024 conviction for two counts of domestic battery and one count of criminal restraint through Harvey County District Court.
On Saturday, following his release from the hospital, detectives booked Gabor into the Sedgwick County Jail.
On Tuesday, June 24, the Sedgwick County District Attorney filed charges against Gabor that include one count of aggravated kidnapping, one count of aggravated domestic battery, one count of domestic battery, one count of interference with law enforcement, and one count of violating a protection order.
The Sheriff’s Office wil later present the findings of the officer-involved shooting to the District Attorney.