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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A 28-year-old Wichita man died after being shot multiple times in northeast Wichita. It happened around 9:20 p.m. Thursday at the Woodgate Apartments in the 5400 block of East 21st. The victim, identified as Robert Young, was transported to the hospital. He died just after midnight. Wichita police said that the investigation revealed that Young was at the apartment visiting two men, ages 23 and 29. During the evening, the three began drinking alcohol . It was followed by an argument and fight. Young and the other 29-year-old man left the apartment. They returned a short time later and hit the door of the apartment. Police said that is when the 23-year-old man grabbed his firearm, opened the front door, and fired several shots at Young. The 23-year-old man, identified as Kirby Dale Lewis , was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on second- degree murder charges according to jail records. The homicide is the 34th homicide this year in Wichita. Police said they...

Jim Pantaleo’s phone winked out sometime after 6:00 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2012. The last message he sent before it died was to his wife, Allison. “Love you forever,” it said. And then, nothing. Jim had spent the day before writing and drinking, slowly. From his perch at the corner of an L-shaped bar at a pub in Toronto’s east end, he tapped away at his laptop. He sipped beer and he did shots of “liquid cocaine,” a mix of Jagermeister and Goldschlager schnapps. Jim had arrived at the pub, Rails and Ales, at about 3 p.m. “He seemed very normal,” says Len Grammenopoulos, the bar’s owner. He ate some food. He joked around. Sometime after midnight, he sent his mother an email with seven letters inside. At about 2:30 a.m., he paid his tab — maybe $60, $70. He high-fived Len and he walked out. “I remember him saying ‘I’m gone,’” Len says. “And that was it.” Jim was gone. When Jim and Allison Pantaleo first met — as coworkers at a pub called Gabby ’s on the Danforth — it was something close to ...