Ruben Parga-Quintanar, a 49-year-old Hispanic man from Dodge City, was found fatally shot in a north Wichita alley on the morning of August 1, 2025. First responders arrived to the 2400 block of North Jeanette after a report of a man down; Parga-Quintanar was discovered with a gunshot wound and pronounced dead at 8:53 a.m.

Early in the investigation officers thought he had been shot elsewhere and fled on a bicycle for at least three blocks before collapsing, but later evidence suggested he was shot in the alley and collapsed near where he was found. Detectives identified a person of interest, served a search warrant at that person’s home on August 2, and a Wichita man, 41-year-old Ricardo S. Talavera, was arrested the following Tuesday and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail. He was initially held on suspicion of second-degree murder and later charged with involuntary manslaughter and interference with a law enforcement officer.

Are there witnesses or information about Parga-Quintanar’s movements before he was found that could help clarify where the shooting occurred?