A man who was shot by a Wichita police officer during a confrontation Sunday evening is in stable condition at a hospital.   Police released more details on the shooting at a Monday news conference.

Police captain Brent Allred said the man went to his grandparents home on Key West, near 51st Street North and Meridian.  Family members were uncomfortable with the man being there because of past disturbances, and he was asked to leave around 7:30 p.m.  Just after 8 p.m. the man’s mother called 911 and said her son had jumped into a small lake behind the house and may be on methamphetamine.   The mother said the man had a history of being combative and he could be violent with police.

Allred said two officers saw the man walking in the area, but he refused to stop and talk to them and he began walking north into a field, then he began to run.  Two other officers approached from the north.   Allred said the man began yelling obscenities and had been reaching for his waistband, and he refused orders to stop and show his hands.    Allred said the man pulled something out of his waistband and extended both hands toward an officer with an object in his hand that was believed to be a handgun.  One officer fired three rounds, one of them striking the man in the abdomen.

The officer who fired the shot has been with the Wichita Police Department for seven months, and he has been placed on paid administrative leave that is standard procedure for shooting incidents.   The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is working with Wichita police to look into the shooting.

Allred said information on the case will be presented to the Sedgwick County district attorney’s office for a decision on charges.  The 20-year-old man could face charges of criminal threat and possibly aggravated assault.     Allred said the man’s family had been trying to help him and police have had contact with him before.

(photo above is from a police body camera showing the man in the field near 51st and Meridian.