A Wichita man has been sentenced to about three and a half years in prison after shooting a teenager outside the Goddard Walmart in 2024, leaving him paralyzed.
A Sedgwick County judge sentenced 49-year-old Ruben Contreras to 43 months in prison after he was found guilty of aggravated battery in a week-long trial in November. The Wichita man was acquitted by a jury of one count of attempted first-degree murder.
The incident happened in May 2024 after Contreras’ 16-year-old daughter called him in distress. While shopping for graduation party supplies with her boyfriend, his daughter said, three teenage boys drove by the couple and shot them with gel blasters as part of a Goddard High tradition called “senior assassins.”…