A 21-year-old Wichita man who was jailed after police say he fatally shot another man during a fight at a south Wichita mobile home park has pleaded guilty to robbery and gun crimes in other cases — and had charges tied to events surrounding the killing dismissed, Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dan Dillon said Monday.
Laquavion Bentley, who had been facing charges in four Sedgwick County District Court cases, entered his guilty pleas Friday. One of those cases is connected to the Sept. 15, 2022, shooting death of 21-year-old Devin R. Bills of Wichita at Riverside Mobile Home Community, 4560 S. Hydraulic. Bills died after Bentley shot him twice in the torso during an argument that started while they were hanging out with friends, drinking alcohol and using “Xanax bars,” a probable cause affidavit released in the case says.
Witnesses told police Bills and Bentley both had guns, and at least one person said Bills fired shots first, the affidavit says. The shooting happened around 1:30 a.m…