WICHITA — The Latest on the shooting of a Department of Revenue employee in Wichita:
3:55 p.m.
The Kansas Department of Revenue says the man accused of shooting a seizure agent at its office in Wichita has two tax warrants totaling almost $400,000 related to his construction business.
Police have identified the suspect as 51-year-old Ricky Wirths of Wichita. He is accused of shooting Cortney Holloway at the office in Wichita on Tuesday afternoon. Holloway is in stable condition.
The tax warrants were filed in June against Wirths and his company Rick Wirths Construction.
One warrant is for $196,455.46 in unpaid sales tax. The other against his company amounts to $198,250.02 in unpaid consumers compensating use tax, which is for merchandise purchased outside the state for use in Kansas.
Revenue Secretary Sam Williams says in a news release that asset seizure is the “very last resort,” and agents work with the taxpayer to try to set up payment plans.
11:25 a.m.
Court records show the man accused of shooting a seizure agent at the Kansas Department of Revenue owed almost $200,000 in unpaid sales taxes related to his construction business.
Police have identified the suspect as 51-year-old Ricky Wirths of Wichita. He is accused of shooting Cortney Holloway at the office in Wichita on Tuesday afternoon. Holloway is in stable condition.
A tax warrant for $196,455.36 filed in June against Wirths in Sedgwick County District Court shows he was doing business as Rick Wirths Construction.
The unpaid taxes are for the tax periods spanning June 2012 to July 2015.
10:35 a.m.
Wichita police say the suspect in a shooting at a Kansas Department of Revenue office asked for his victim by name before opening fire.
Wichita police Officer Charley Davidson says 51-year-old Ricky Wirths, of Wichita, entered the office Tuesday afternoon and asked to see tax seizure agent Ricky Holloway.
Holloway was involved in an agency investigation of Wirths. Davidson says while the two men were discussing the case, Wirths pulled out a gun and shot Holloway, then fled in a pickup.
Wirths was arrested a short time later close to his home.
Holloway is in stable condition Wednesday morning.
Tax records indicate Wirths owes $196,455.36 for four tax periods spanning 2012 to 2015.
7:45 a.m.
Records show a man suspected of shooting a Kansas Department of Revenue employee at the agency’s Wichita office owes nearly $200,000 in unpaid taxes.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the 51-year-old suspect was jailed on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after tax agent Cortney Holloway was shot several times Tuesday. Holloway’s condition has been upgraded from critical to serious.
Wichita police Officer Charley Davidson says the shooting didn’t appear to be a “random event” and that the victim was involved in an agency investigation of the suspect. Holloway works in the tax compliance division. The Revenue Department had issued a tax warrant in June showing that the suspect owes $196,455.36 for four tax periods spanning 2012 to 2015.
The suspect was arrested about half an hour after the shooting.
