HUTCHINSON, Kan. — We have learned more on Monday’s officer involved shooting. In a news release, police say that at around 1:30 pm, Justin Mathews was released from Via-Cristi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita after receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to his right shoulder.
Based upon information from the KBI, the Reno County District Attorney’s Office is charging Matthews with aggravated assault, criminal threat and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Mathews is now in the Reno County Jail with a bond of $100,000.
Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt showed the media the video from of the officers vehicle which also includes audio. It shows Matthews coming at the officer with a knife or knives and the officer ordering him to drop them. When he didn’t and came at the officer, he was then shot.
From the 911 call, it sounds as though Matthews wanted his mothers car keys and she refused to give them to him. That caused him to threaten her. At one point, she tells the dispatcher that he may have some mental issues and that he threatened to cut her throat. She didn’t think he actually had a gun, but at one point, he repeatedly says “I have a gun, I have a gun.”
Radloff, a 16-year veteran of the department is on administrative leave and will be until the end of the investigation by the KBI. Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt says he talked with the officer Tuesday and that he’s doing okay, but says they didn’t discuss the details of what happened because it isn’t their investigation. He apparently has not been interviewed by the KBI thus far, but will be according to Heitschmidt.
Unless Matthews is able to make bond, he should make a first appearance.
Here is a portion of the 911 call and the discussion is over whether Matthews had a gun.