A night out in Wichita ended in violence for 24-year-old Austen James Wright. In the early hours of August 13, 2018, officers responded to reports of a shooting behind Vixen’s Erotic Sports Bar on West Harry Street and found Wright in the back parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries.

Police say a verbal argument inside the club led to a confrontation in the parking lot involving Wright and a group of three to four men, and that someone in that group drew a handgun and fired multiple times. The killing was recorded as Wichita’s 33rd homicide of 2018 and was the second fatal shooting near that nightclub that summer.

Two arrests followed quickly. On August 13, 2018, 25-year-old Hernan Quezada was arrested and charged with felony murder and criminal possession of a firearm by a felon; court records list a prior conviction for assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering. On August 15, 2018, 26-year-old Mario D. Sandoval Jr. was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.