CHANUTE — Authorities continue to investigate the Monday morning shooting death of a Topeka man in a residential area of Chanute.
“We’re still in the process of identifying or confirming a suspect,” Neosho County Attorney Linus Thuston told The Chanute Tribune.
Blake A. Pearson, 34, Topeka, was found early Monday in an alley southeast of 17th and Highland Avenue with a single gunshot wound. He was transported by EMS to Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Chanute Police Department later posted on its official Facebook page that there was no indication the shooting was a random act.
Thuston declined to tell the newspaper whether he believed a suspect was in the Chanute area, or if the community is at risk.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Shawnee County Sheriff’s Department are assisting the Chanute Police Department with the investigation, the Tribune reported.
