SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating a suspect in connection with a shooting.

Justice Kennedy, 22, is accused of confronting Kwentin Gunter, 21, in the parking lot of Lowe’s Home Improvement, 3035 South 9th, on Thursday evening August 4, according to Police Captain Mike Sweeney.

The two men exchanged words and a handgun was pulled out.

Multiple shots were fired and one hit the passenger side of Gunter’s vehicle.

Sweeney said Kennedy was arrested by officers Wednesday in the 600 block of South Santa Fe in Salina.

He was booked into the Saline County Jail on multiple requested charges including assault, criminal discharge of a firearm, and criminal possession of a weapon by a felon with a previous conviction.

The handgun used in the incident has not been recovered, according to Sweeny.