WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — We are continuing to learn more about the five men involved in the murder-suicide from Sunday in south Wichita.
Only one neighbor KSN spoke to would go on camera. This comes as a sobering reminder of how raw emotions are, so soon after police discovered the bodies of five men across three separate crime scenes. The name that came up most was Terry Meyer, whose friends and neighbors want to be remembered for how he lived, not the tragedy of his death.
The grisly scale of the crimes is leaving an air of uneasiness for many neighbors.
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“You can feel it in the air,” neighbor Diego Otero said.
Otero lives just two doors down from one of the houses recently wrapped in police tape. He says he didn’t know Meyer personally but distinctly remembers how often he’d see him working on projects in his driveway. His cars and prized motorcycle are under near-constant maintenance.
Police say Meyer’s stepson, Joshua Stickney, is the one who shot and killed him. According to them, Stickney also shot and killed his biological father, Anthony Stickney and two neighbors, Donald Dodge and Alan Young. Police released the names of the victims but not the answer to the biggest question: why?