This weekend marks 25 years since a quadruple murder in 2000 in Wichita, the first of two multiple-homicide cases that would occur in the city in a span of a little more than a week. It happened at a duplex in the 1100 block of N. Erie, west of 11th & Hillside, in a neighborhood near the back side of Highland Cemetery.
The call for police began as a shooting complaint. Inside, the officer located four dead bodies: the victims included Jermaine Levy, Quincy Williams, and his cousin ‘Dessa Ford in the front room, and Raeshawnda Wheaton in a bedroom.
Levy had been shot in the head and neck by two bullets fired from a .380 semi-automatic handgun. Williams was shot three times in the head, twice with a .38 caliber special revolver, and once with the .380 handgun; they were both shot in the back of the head as they played a video game. Ford was shot in the head with a .38 revolver from a few feet away, as she tried to run away. Investigators found no defensive wounds on these three victims…