Wu’s financial support comes from some of Wichita’s wealthiest, most powerful backers: an assortment of local developers, bankers and CEOs — including billionaire Phil Ruffin, Spirit Aerosystems CEO Tom Gentile, Stephen Clark, Steve Barrett, Johnny Stevens, Jon Rolph, Wink Hartman and Colby Sandlian. Wu also has the support of Americans for Prosperity (AFP), a political action group started by Charles Koch. AFP has paid for at least six mailings for Wu during the primary. Her campaign paid for at least an additional two.
In her answers to The Beacon’s questions to mayoral candidates, Wu acknowledged her close ties to developers — including her boyfriend, Stephen Clark II, the first person to donate to her campaign. “Real estate development is necessary for growth,” Wu told The Beacon. “It brings affordable housing, retail, restaurants, hotels and other amenities that help increase our quality of life.”
🚩 Is there something about this soccer field in Wichita, Kansas? Because the history surrounding this location is absolutely chilling.
After today’s unimaginable tragedy at the Stryker Sports Complex, where a woman drove a pickup truck through a youth soccer game, killing a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, I came across something that gave me chills.
This isn’t the first time people have been killed at this same soccer field at this very intersection.
This is where the Wichita Massacre took place almost 26 years ago.
On December 15, 2000, brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr committed one of the most horrific crimes in Kansas history, now known as the Wichita Massacre.
After breaking into a home and terrorizing five people for hours, the brothers forced their victims into vehicles and drove them to a snow-covered soccer field near 29th Street North and Greenwich Road in Wichita.
There, they lined up all five victims and shot them in the head.
But it gets even more horrifying.
🚩 The brothers then drove a truck over their victims before fleeing. 😳 WHAT?!
Four people were killed: Aaron Sander, 29, Brad Heyka, 27, Jason Befort, 26, and Heather Muller, 25.
Miraculously, a fifth victim survived and helped bring the brothers to justice. Because the bullet ricocheted off of her hair clip.
Now, nearly 26 years later, another horrifying tragedy has unfolded at the soccer complex at that same intersection.
A 34-year-old woman drove a pickup truck through a field filled with children and parents watching a soccer game. Two people lost their lives, and numerous others were injured.
Police are still investigating why it happened.
Almost 26 years apart. Two horrific tragedies. Soccer fields at the same Wichita intersection.
Had you ever heard about the Wichita Massacre? And does anyone from Wichita remember the original soccer field and how it relates to today’s complex?
