Wichita police make arrest in shooting of 11-year-old girl

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say they’ve made an arrest in a drive-by shooting earlier this week that injured an 11-year-old girl. Police say 25-year-old Byron Monroe Purcell was arrested Thursday and booked on counts of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and weapons, drug and parole violation charges. He’s accused of being the gunman in a shooting that happened early Tuesday in the city’s Ken-Mar neighborhood in which bullets hit a house. Police say the 11-year-old girl was in the house and asleep in her bed when she was hit by the gunfire. She was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. Police say four other people in the home at the time of the shooting were not injured.