On the evening of December 29, 2020, Bradley Michael Reece, 43, was fatally shot at a residence on West Fairhaven just outside Wichita city limits. Reece was pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. A 22-year-old woman, Kayla Schmidt, was also shot that night and died a few days later on New Year’s Eve.

Wilking went to Reece’s home to confront him over an unpaid drug debt. What began as an intention to teach Reece a lesson escalated into a robbery. Wilking, armed with a shotgun, broke into the house while others searched the premises and took methamphetamine and computer equipment. Reece ran to a neighbor’s house for help, and there was an exchange of gunfire in the front yard.

Law enforcement identified two persons of interest, 34-year-old Joshua Dean Halstead and 28-year-old Jacquellyn Michelle Arthur, and later apprehended them on January 6, 2021; they were booked on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated robbery. Investigators identified Michael C. Wilking as the gunman and reported that Wilking and others left the wounded Kayla Schmidt at a hospital before fleeing. Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Bradley Reece?