By Associated Press - Thursday, January 7, 2021

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say two people have been arrested in a double homicide in Wichita.

Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Lt. Benjamin Blick says deputies took 34-year-old Joshua Dean Halstead and 28-year-old Jacquellyn Michelle Arthur into custody Wednesday in Wichita.

They have been booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the Dec. 29 shooting.



Forty-three-year-old Bradley Michael Reece died at the scene. The other victim, 22-year-old Kayla Schmidt, was taken to a hospital, where she died on New Year’s Eve.

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