Manuel MJ A. Otano-Hernandez Jr., 24, was killed in Wichita on August 18, 2018, after an argument between two groups in an alley near 21st and Market escalated into a shootout. The confrontation began when someone in a parking lot fired a pistol into the air, and exchange of gunfire left Otano-Hernandez and 36-year-old Jesse Villalobos with fatal gunshot wounds.

The Wichita Police Department investigated but did not announce any arrests. Authorities concluded the killings were acts of self-defense; details about who fired the fatal shots were not publicly released. The case closed with the self-defense finding and no criminal charges reported in connection with the deaths.

Otano-Hernandez’s name had previously surfaced in a separate December 2014 homicide investigation when he was arrested at age 20 on suspicion of murder in a different shooting; court records show no charges were filed and he was released. Did anyone in Wichita have information about the events near 21st and Market that night?