On the morning of February 22, 2024, 26-year-old Audreanna Ohshay Marie Hidalgo was found inside her Garden Pines Apartments home in Wichita with a fatal gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. Hidalgo, a Black/African American caregiver who worked with the elderly and children, is remembered by friends and family for her love of cooking, dancing, music and an uplifting smile.

Investigators quickly treated the killing as intimate partner violence and identified Hidalgo’s 38-year-old boyfriend Dennis Leroy Alcox as the primary suspect. Police tracked Alcox to Junction City later that morning and arrested him there. Authorities said the couple had a troubled relationship, that Hidalgo had tried to end it, and that the pair had been exchanging heated text messages in the days before the shooting; investigators reported Alcox drove from Junction City to Hidalgo’s apartment that night, shot her, then returned to Junction City and removed his electronic monitoring bracelet.

If anyone knew Audreanna, her routines, or saw either her or Alcox around Garden Pines Apartments in February 2024, please share what was observed.