On March 28, 2020, 8-year-old Natayla Sorell and her 24-year-old mother, Mickayla Sorell, were found fatally shot inside their home in the 4500 block of South Walnut in Wichita, Kansas. The deaths were discovered after Mickayla did not show up for work and colleagues requested a welfare check. Their deaths were recorded as the city’s 13th and 14th homicides of the year.

Investigators identified 25-year-old Daniel Lopez as a person of interest; he was described as Mickayla’s boyfriend and Natayla’s father. Authorities believed the shootings occurred the night of March 28. Lopez was arrested April 10, 2020, and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on capital murder charges alleging more than one victim, plus criminal possession of a firearm and aggravated assault. Court paperwork tied a probation violation to allegations that he killed both victims two days before their bodies were found and that he forced someone to drive him at gunpoint on the day of the murders. His bond on the murder charge was set at $1 million.

If anyone knew the family, saw activity in the 4500 block of South Walnut around March 28, 2020, or has information about that day, please come forward.