On the evening of Friday, November 22, 2024, 40-year-old Myron James Tucker of Wichita was fatally shot multiple times while on playground equipment in Prospect Park near 13th Street and Main. Wichita Police officers discovered his body at about 8:49 PM while they were in the area investigating other violent incidents that began unfolding shortly after the shooting.

Authorities identified a 33-year-old man, Jose Antonio Acosta, as the suspect in Tucker’s killing. According to reports, minutes after the murder Acosta committed an armed robbery in the 1400 block of North Otis, pistol-whipping one person and stealing a bicycle, then fired shots into a nearby home (injuring a dog), attempted a carjacking near 16th and Broadway, fired at an unidentified man at 11th and Broadway, and threatened a woman at a convenience store while firing shots in her direction. Officers located Acosta near 11th and Broadway at 9:26 PM; when he reportedly attempted to draw a firearm after being ordered to surrender, officers shot him and he was taken to a hospital.

Tucker’s family said he had recently lost his younger sister three months earlier and described him as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Does anyone have information about Myron’s movements that evening or witnessed any of the incidents around Prospect Park?