On March 30, 2020, colleagues who could not reach 24-year-old Mickayla Sorell requested a welfare check at her home in the 4400 block of South Walnut in Wichita, Kansas. Police found Mickayla and her 8-year-old daughter, Natayla, inside the residence; both had been shot to death. Investigators determined the shootings occurred two days earlier, on March 28, 2020.

Attention quickly focused on Mickayla’s 25-year-old boyfriend and Natayla’s father, Daniel Lopez, who was named the primary suspect and at one point was described as armed and dangerous while a search was under way. Lopez was located and arrested at a family member’s home on April 10, 2020, taken into custody without incident, and charged with capital murder, criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and aggravated assault. In June 2020 Lopez pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Mickayla’s death and second-degree murder in Natayla’s death and received a life sentence with parole eligibility after 50 years plus a consecutive sentence of more than 15 years.

Does anyone have information about Mickayla or Natayla’s lives in Wichita that could add context to what happened?