Updated 11/13/2023 11 a.m.
By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
On Friday, Nov. 10, the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office notified the Salina Police Department that they had caught one of the suspects from a home invasion on Sept. 19.
The incident affected four victims who reported two suspects invaded their home with a large butcher knife and a rifle-like gun.
SPD Sergeant Kyle Tonniges said the department learned the location of suspect Phyroom Ketkan, a 41-year-old Salina man, in Wichita, so the department informed the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office.
"We contacted them over in their warrants division and said, 'Hey, we got this guy — we think that this is his address,' and I don't know if that was what resulted in his arrest or if they just came across him," Tonniges said. "I don't know the details surrounding the rest of it, other than a sheriff's officer picked him up."
Tonniges said the Sedwick County Sheriff's Office will extradite the suspect, Ketkan, back to Salina to face the following charges —
● Aggravated Robbery
● Aggravated Burglary
● Aggravated Battery
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By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
The Salina Police Department responded to a home invasion at 9:18 p.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of North Penn Avenue, where four victims reported two suspects invaded their home with a large butcher knife and a rifle-like gun.
Three victims were reported as adults, with one child present in the home during the invasion.
Sergeant Kyle Tonniges said the three adult victims reported they heard a knock at their their back door. After opening the door, a masked suspect pointed a "long gun" at the victims.
Another suspect followed alongside the gun-wielding suspect into the home.
"They came into the house, and one of the victims rushed to the person with a gun. There was a struggle. There was a second suspect there with the individual with a gun — he had a large butcher knife," Tonniges said.
Tonniges said one victim rushed the suspect with a gun and received multiple lacerations on his head and shoulders from the suspect wielding the butcher knife.
After wounding the victim, both suspects fled the scene.
"The victims were able to identify one of the suspects as somebody they knew. So we're following up trying to identify the second subject," Tonniges said.
Salina Post will update this story as new information becomes available