{"id":2941,"date":"2026-10-19T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:04:12","slug":"driver-released-after-pickup-truck-kills-2-injures-10-at-kansas-youth-soccer-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2941","title":{"rendered":"Driver released after pickup truck kills 2, injures 10 at Kansas youth soccer game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The woman who was driving a pickup truck that entered a Kansas soccer field during \u200ba youth match, <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/vehicle-drives-through-kansas-soccer-game-killing-two-including-child-police-say-2026-10-17\/\">killing a man and a 6-year-old<\/a> boy, was \u200creleased without charges while the investigation continues, authorities said on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investigators interviewed the 34-year-old woman, whom authorities have not publicly identified, and consulted \u200bwith the Sedgwick County district attorney\u2019s office before releasing \u200bher, the Wichita Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police \u2060said toxicology testing and a mechanical examination of the vehicle \u200bwere still underway.<\/p>\n<p>The Chevrolet pickup truck had been parked near \u200ba soccer field in Wichita on Saturday before entering the pitch during a game and striking multiple people, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Five children ages 5 to \u200b9 and five adults suffered noncritical injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Two children \u200bof the driver were inside the truck when the incident occurred and \u200cwere \u2060interviewed, police said. One of the driver\u2019s children was playing on a different soccer field at the complex, according to the police statement.<\/p>\n<p>Wichita police will present an initial review of the \u200bcase to the \u200bdistrict attorney early \u2060this week, district attorney\u2019s office spokesperson Lyndsee Stover said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified those killed \u200bin the crash as 6-year-old Cole Adrian and \u200b35-year-old Nicholas \u2060Schafer of McPherson, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are with the families of Adrian and Nicholas as they face an unimaginable loss. What should \u2060have been \u200ba day of children playing soccer \u200band families spending time together ended in tragedy,\u201d Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman who was driving a pickup truck that entered a Kansas soccer field during \u200ba youth match, killing a man and a 6-year-old boy, was \u200creleased without charges while the investigation continues, authorities said on Sunday. Investigators interviewed the 34-year-old woman, whom authorities have not publicly identified, and consulted \u200bwith the Sedgwick County district attorney\u2019s office before releasing \u200bher, the Wichita Police Department said in a statement. Police \u2060said toxicology testing and a mechanical examination of the vehicle \u200bwere still underway. The Chevrolet pickup truck had been parked near&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}