A Salina man wanted for first degree murder was arrested in Kansas City, Mo. on Wednesday.
The Salina Police Department reports police in Kansas City arrested 27-year-old Anthony Quentin Lopez-Garcia. Garcia is also charged with criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with the shooting death of a man in the Salina area.
Police said the man killed in the overnight shooting has been identified, but his name will not be released until next of kin are notified.
Authorities said officers were dispatched to a possible injury accident around 12:25 a.m. Wednesday morning in the area of Front Street and Gypsum Avenue. There they found a man in the passenger seat of a green 2000 Mercury Grand Marquis with a gunshot wound, and investigations later identified Lopez-Garcia as a person of interest.
