FINNEY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a suspect on attempted murder charges and questioning an uncooperative victim.
Just before 5:30a.m. Sunday, sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 2515 West Jones, Garden City in reference to a shooting, according to Sheriff Kevin Bascue.
Three sheriff’s deputies responded and upon arrival were advised that a man identified as 35-year-old Daniel Martinez, Midland, TX, had been shot in the stomach. EMS transported Martinez to St.
Catherine’s Hospital.
While on scene, Deputies were advised by witnesses who the suspect was and vehicle description. As deputies were on the scene, the suspect vehicle passed by and a deputy attempted to conduct a traffic. The vehicle did not stop and the deputy continued west on Jones Avenue from the location of the shooting.
Approximately one mile west of Holcomb, the suspect began shooting out his back window at the pursuing Deputy. Multiple rounds were fired. The suspect vehicle continued west to Holcomb, south on Main Street and west on River Road.
The suspect then drove off the south side of the roadway in the 10,000 Block of West River Road through pastures and fields. The Deputy continued to follow the suspect vehicle from River
Road until the suspect vehicle came to a stop on the east side of the Klotz Sand Pit. The suspect fled his vehicle into the sand pit.
Deputies with assistance from Garden City Police Department, Kansas Highway Patrol, and the Kearney County Sheriff’s Office set up a perimeter around the sand pit.
Just after 2:15p.m., a KHP Swat team arrested Jeovany Valles-Leyva, 37, Garden City.
Jones, was taken into custody by the KHP SWAT team.
He is being held in the Finney County Jail on requested charges of Attempted Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer and for
earlier shooting of Martinez.
A second gunshot victim from the shooting identified as 35-year-old Carolina Calvario,Garden City, arrived at St. Catherines Hospital sometime on Sunday with a gunshot wound to her leg. Calvario has been uncooperative to law enforcement’s investigation, according to Sheriff Bascue.