A wife has been left seriously injured after her husband shot her outside an elementary school in Kansas.
The unnamed woman was shot in the chest during a “domestic dispute” outside of Cessna Elementary School in Wichita, after the couple dropped their children off at around 9:16 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 23, Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter stated in a news conference.
The husband and wife, who arrived with their kids to the school by a Lyft driver, were seen arguing by witnesses before the suspect shot his wife who then “ran towards the school for help,” Easter stated.
“At the point that our deputy arrived [the victim] had the gun pointing at her head and the deputy took cover. And then, when the suspect stepped a little bit away from our victim, the deputy shot the suspect,” he said. The man was then taken into custody.
The wife was later transported to the hospital with a “code red” injury, Easter added — while her husband’s wounds were considered a “code blue.”
According to the Sheriff, no kids, students or staff at the school were injured or put in immediate danger at the time of the shooting.
“Law enforcement showed up within two minutes of the shooting coming out and it never got into the school itself,” Easter said. “There was a district person here [and] a few kids that were outside. She saw the disturbance taking place in the street and so she got some of those kids inside that were coming to school.”
The school was placed into lockdown following the incident.
The Lyft driver who dropped off the man and woman was interviewed along with witnesses by police following the shooting.
Authorities have yet to release the identities of the suspect and victim at this time.
