The man charged last month with making threatening statements targeting Wichita Mayor Lily Wu was upset with her over a delay in processing his application for food stamps “and decided that she was the person who could move it along,” according to a probable cause affidavit released Monday.
A Sedgwick County Comcare worker who took the phone call from 50-year-old Griffin Kyle Cornejo when he made the threats on March 23 contacted 911.
The worker told police she was familiar with Cornejo because he called the community mental health clinic “a lot” to vent when he was angry or troubled. But that day, he was “very agitated” and couldn’t self-regulate like usual after an hourlong call, the affidavit says…