WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a man killed earlier this week following an exchanging gunfire with a Wichita SWAT team during a more than 10-hour standoff.
Police said Gregorio Merced Banuelos, 39, of Wichita, died following the shootout.
Officers were called to a home in west Wichita after a report of a shooting. Arriving officers found a woman and child in the front yard and saw a man with a gun go into a home as other people inside the house left the residence.
After about 10 hours, SWAT team members entered the home and exchanged gunfire with the suspect, later identified as Banuelos, in the home's basement, television station KAKE reported.
Wichita police Capt. Jason Stephens said in a news conference that as officers retreated from the home through the garage and that Banuelos followed them and aggressively advanced on officers.
“Two officers positioned outside saw this, believed he was moving towards those officers armed with a gun, and fired in defense of those officers," Stephens said.
Banuelos died at the scene. No one else was injured, police said. Two Wichita police officers and two Sedgwick County sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave per department policy, Stephens said.
Police said Banuelos was wanted on two felony warrants out of Sedgwick County and was a convicted felon who was prohibited from owning a gun.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating his shooting death.
