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Samuel Meza was 19 when he was shot during a gang-related escalation in Wichita, Kansas. On the evening of March 21, 2016, a verbal confrontation in the 2400 block of North Jackson grew tense; about an hour later a single gunshot in the 2600 block of North Waco struck Meza in the hip. He was taken to Via Christi Hospital St. Francis and died there on March 23, 2016.

Investigators focused on a 19-year-old named Arturo Jesus Desantiago as a suspect. Desantiago was arrested shortly after noon on a Friday after the shooting and booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder with bond set at $350,000. Authorities said the shooting was part of a three-year violent feud between rival gangs in the area, and formal charges of second-degree intentional murder were brought against Desantiago.

Did anyone in Wichita at the time remember the gang tensions on North Jackson and North Waco or have information about the events of March 21, 2016?