SEDGWICK COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal shooting, have identified the victim and two suspects arrested.

Just after 6p.m. Monday, police responded to report of a shooting in the 4600 Block of East Boston in Wichita, according to office Charley Davidson.

A police officer attending a meeting nearby also responded to the scene and they located the victim identified as 33-year-old Jerome Armbeck of Wichita in an open field. He had multiple gunshot wounds. Despite the efforts of police and emergency personnel, Armbeck was pronounce dead at the scene, according to Davidson.

Investigators have learned that a disturbance occurred between Armbeck and several other individuals. One suspect fired a weapon several times striking the victim, according to Davidson. This was not a random incident.

On Tuesday, police arrested 20-year-old Marcus Lamar on a charge of felony murder, aggravated robbery and an outstanding warrant and a 17-year-old boy on a charge of felony murder and aggravated robbery 

Lamar has a previous theft conviction and was reported an absconder, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections

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SEDGWICK COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a fatal shooting, have identified the victim and made an arrest.

Just after 6p.m. Monday, police responded to report of a shooting in the 4600 Block of East Boston in Wichita, according to office Charley Davidson.

A police officer attending a meeting nearby also responded to the scene and they located the victim identified as 33-year-old Jerome Armbeck of Wichita in an open field. He had multiple gunshot wounds. Despite the efforts of police and emergency personnel, Armbeck was pronounce dead at the scene, according to Davidson.

Investigators have learned that a disturbance occurred between Armbeck and several other individuals. One suspect fired a weapon several times striking the victim, according to Davidson. This was not a random incident.

On Tuesday morning, police took one suspect into custody in connection with the shooting. A second suspect was arrested just before noon, according to Davidson. Police have not released their names or possible charges.

KANSAS CITY — Law enforcement authorities responded to a strange call in Kansas City Tuesday.

Just before 11:30a.m, police received multiple calls about a man carrying a topless, unconscious woman on the west side of downtown, according to a social media report.

Callers said it looked like the man wanted to throw the woman over a bridge, dropped her on the sidewalk, dragged her head over a curb, had her slung over his shoulder and appeared to be trying to dress her, according to police. One caller said he was yelling ‘savior’ while holding the woman just east of the 12th Street Bridge.

Multiple officers quickly responded to the scene. They found a man and what they found was totally unexpected, according to the release. The woman was actually a life-size female doll.

The man told police he found it in a dumpster of a restaurant at 16th and Broadway. He had carried the doll to the woods. According to police, they advised him not to carry the doll around in public anymore.

WASHINGTON – A former Kansas bank executive was found guilty by a federal jury Monday for his participation in a bank fraud scheme to obtain a $15 million construction loan for certain bank customers based upon false and fraudulent representations, according to the United States Department of Justice.  The loan was shared among 26 Kansas banks.

Troy A. Gregory, 52, of Lawrence, Kansas, was found guilty of four counts of bank fraud and two counts of false statements, as charged in a November 2017 indictment.  The jury failed to reach a verdict as to one count of conspiracy.  Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 28, 2020, before U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia of the District of Kansas, who presided over the trial.

According to the evidence submitted at trial, Gregory was a bank executive and loan officer who had made millions of dollars in loans to a group of borrowers who were struggling to make payments on the loans. 

Beginning in approximately late 2007, Gregory began the process of making a $15.2 million construction loan to build an apartment complex to that same group of borrowers.  Gregory’s bank shared this loan with 25 other Kansas banks. Gregory made and caused others to make false statements to the banks about the strength of the borrowers, the debt status of the apartment property and the existence of approximately $1.7 million in certificates of deposit for collateral on the loan, all to get the loan approved. Instead of using the loan funds promised for building the apartments, Gregory immediately diverted over $1 million of the loan to pay for part of the certificates of deposit pledged as collateral, pay off debt on the apartment property, and make payments on unrelated loans, the evidence showed.  Other Kansas banks that shared in this loan would not have participated in the loan without the false representations and promises.  The banks ultimately wrote off millions of dollars on the $15.2 million construction loan, the evidence showed.

The FDIC-OIG, IRS-CI, FBI and FHFA-OIG are investigating this matter.  Trial Attorney Andrew R. Tyler and Senior Litigation Counsel David A. Bybee of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section are prosecuting the case.

KANSAS CITY (AP) — A former teacher at a Catholic school in Kansas City alleges in a lawsuit that she was fired because she was pregnant and unmarried.

A jury trial is scheduled to begin Monday in Michelle Bolen’s lawsuit against the principal of St. Therese Catholic elementary school and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.

Bolen had worked for the school for nearly 15 years when she lost her job in July 2015. Diocese spokesman Jack Smith says her contract wasn’t renewed for reasons that have nothing to do with her pregnancy.

The suit says Bolen was harassed and that a letter sent to staff announcing that she was expecting described her pregnancy as “less than ideal.” Bolen now works at another school.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 23-year-old Wichita woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of her 2-year-old son.

Kimberly Compass was charged Tuesday in the death of Zayden JayNesahkluah, whose body was found May 31 at a Wichita motel. Authorities have not said how Zayden died.

A criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Sedgwick County says Compass killed her son while committing another felony, aggravated child endangerment.

Compass, who was arrested last Thursday, remains jailed on $500,000 bond for the murder charge and $1 million bond for a probation violation. Her next court date is Sept. 5.

Zayden is at least the ninth child age 5 or younger to die in the Wichita area under suspicious circumstances since 2017. Several of them died after state welfare officials had contact with their families.

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DOUGLAS COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a burglary and working to identify a suspect.

Just before 4a.m. August 13,  an unknown suspect burglarized the Islamic Center, 1917 Naismith Drive. in Lawrence, according to officer Patrick Compton.

Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspect described as a black male, heavyset in his 20s with a light mustache. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a red NBA hoodie, hat and blue jeans.

Surveillance footage shows the suspect entering the worship center and removing two donation boxes containing approximately $1,000 – $2,000 in cash.

The morning of the incident, the suspect was believed to be driving a maroon or red four-door sedan.