On the evening of December 29, 2020, a shooting at a home in the 3900 block of West Fairhaven, just outside Wichita, Kansas, left two people dead. Twenty-two-year-old Kayla Gwen Schmidt was critically injured and transported to a local hospital; she died of her wounds on December 31, 2020. Forty-three-year-old Bradley Michael Reece was found dead at the scene.

Investigators quickly identified three Wichita residents as persons of interest. Authorities sought Joshua Dean Halstead, 34, and Jacquellyn Michelle Arthur, 28, and by January 6, 2021 both were located and arrested. A third person, Michael Clayton Wilking, 32, was also taken into custody. The group were charged in connection with the deaths.

According to an affidavit, the confrontation arose from a dispute over a drug debt: Wilking, described as Schmidt’s boyfriend, and others went to Reece’s home intending to confront him and to ‘‘teach him a lesson,’’ which escalated into a robbery and an exchange of gunfire that left Reece and Schmidt dead.

If anyone has information about the events that night or knew Kayla, please come forward.