By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
A Salina man was arrested on requested attempted murder charges after an incident at a local gentlemen's club early Saturday morning.
Deputies were sent to the Shady Lady, 1540 W. Old Highway 40, at 1:49 a.m. Saturday for the report of people being shot, Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning. When they arrived, they found near the entrance a 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old man with gunshot wounds.
Both men were transported to Salina Regional Health Center before one was transported to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita and the other to Ascension Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, Soldan said.
A third shooting victim who also had been near the entrance, a 23-year-old man, had already been dropped off at Salina Regional by his friend, Dyeon Presley, 23, of Salina, who sheriff's office personnel believed was the alleged shooter. The 23-year-old man who was shot was treated and released at Salina Regional, Soldan said.
"Apparently the bouncers were trying to get people out of the club at the end of the night. Somebody bumped into his (Presley's) girlfriend who was with him and said something that he took offense to, and they exchanged words and he just started shooting at him at the front door of the club," Soldan said.
The weapon was a 9mm handgun, he said.
The 25-year-old and the 31-year-old were next to a bouncer when they were shot, Soldan said.
Later on Saturday, at approximately 10 a.m., deputies served a search warrant at Presley's residence in the 2200 block of Roach Street to look for evidence in the case. After they had secured the residence and had begun searching it, Presley showed up on the porch looking for his girlfriend, Soldan said.
Presley was arrested on the following requested charges, according to Soldan.
●Three counts of attempted murder
●Aggravated assault
●Criminal damage to property
●Criminal discharge of a firearm in an occupied building