Gabriel Aiden Jimenez was 15 when he was fatally shot in north Wichita after being struck while walking with a 14-year-old friend near 15th Street North and Poplar in the early morning hours of December 13, 2023. An unknown shooter opened fire from a nearby backyard; both boys were hit. First responders found Gabriel with a severe gunshot wound to his abdomen just after 12:15 a.m. and his friend with a nonlife-threatening wound to the upper right leg. Both were taken to hospital.

Gabriel remained in critical condition and died on December 18, 2023, five days after the shooting. The Wichita Police Department originally sought a person of interest but no arrest has been announced. The shooting circumstances remain unclear and the case is listed as an unsolved homicide by the department’s Cold Case Unit. A GoFundMe was set up to assist the family with burial costs.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that could help investigators?