Wichita Kansas Police Detective FInds Gun in Shootings in Toilet Paper Holder

A Wichita police detective was using a bathroom at city hall when a handgun used in two shootings in the preceding weeks fell out of the toilet paper holder and onto the floor, according to a federal court filing.

Daquinton Shamarr Baker was charged Tuesday in federal court with possession of a gun by a prohibited person. An affidavit in the case alleges he brought the gun to city hall while in police custody.

Wichita police arrested the 23-year-old Wichita man at his home on April 11 in reference to a Kansas Department of Corrections warrant and took him to the sixth floor to be interviewed by detectives, the court document says.

Any suspect going to city hall for interrogation is supposed to be searched for weapons or contraband before being placed into a police vehicle, according to police department processes. The suspect does not have to go through metal detectors or be wanded, according to a document provided by police.

People going to city hall on their own have to go through a metal detector and can be subject to wanding.

Asked how a suspect reportedly got into city hall with a gun, Wichita police referred questions to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. That office would not answer any questions about an open case that are not already in court records.

Here is what the federal court document says happened after the suspect arrived at city hall:

He asked to use a restroom during the interview.

“Officers walked Daquinton Baker to the 6th floor bathroom where Daquinton Baker used the men’s accessible stall (the same stall where a firearm would later be found),” the document says. On April 14 a detective used the same stall and discovered a black Taurus G3C 9 mm with a mounted light. “Detective Davidson observed this handgun fall out of the toilet paper holder onto the floor of the men’s handicap bathroom stall on the sixth floor.”

DNA testing linked Baker to the gun; testing the shell casings linked the gun to shootings on April 3 and April 5. GPS location history also located Baker at the crimes, the document says, although it does not specify the device tracking the GPS coordinates.

Baker does not face charges in those shootings.

The April 3 shooting was reported at 1:25 a.m. as a drive-by in the 1100 block of North Edwards, which is near 13th Street and McLean.

“Officers located several casings over several blocks,” a police report says. “No damage located.”

The April 5 shooting was reported at 10:46 p.m. at American Legion Post 273 at 1335 N. Hydraulic. A person reported “hearing gunshots and suffering a injury,” a police report says, and EMS took the person to the hospital.

Baker had been sentenced in December 2021 to 34 months in prison in a robbery case, court records show. A man reported being robbed of a vehicle and property, according to a police report.

Baker was released from prison in February 2024 before going back in December 2024 for violating probation, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records. He was released from prison again on March 10, 2025, and a warrant was issued for his arrest on April 11, KDOC records show.

He had been at Sedgwick County Jail since his arrest on April 11 until being released into federal custody on July 25. He remained in Butler County Jail, according to the latest roster available from the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. That jail houses some federal inmates.

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