UPDATE: We have now been able to confirm that Elizabeth Kogo and Gideon Maiyo had applied for a marriage licence in April 2010 in Wichita, KS. We have also been able to confirm that Gideon Maiyo was arrested on the night of 01/23/2011 and booked at around 12.49 am on 01/24/2011. He is being charged with ATTEMPTED 1ST DEGREE MURDER.
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WICHITA — A 29-year-old Kenyan woman identified as Elizabeth Kogo was in “very critical condition” this morning after being struck repeatedly with a hammer, and a man described as her boyfriend or husband has been arrested after his car crashed on the Kansas Turnpike, police said.
Elizabeth Kogo also is an alleged victim and he is the defendant in a pending misdemeanor battery case stemming from an incident late last year in which he had been arrested, Wichita police Lt. Ken Landwehr said.
The woman was cooperating with police in the previous case but asked that no restraining order be issued against the man, said Landwehr, the homicide unit commander.
The man, 29, is being held in the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, Landwehr said. The investigation will be presented to prosecutors this week.
The woman and the man have been in Wichita since 2008, Landwehr said. The woman has a child who is not living in the United States.
Police were not releasing her name (now released) because her relatives had not been notified of her injuries. Apparently, none of her family lives in the United States.
A little before 7 p.m. Sunday, police responded to a neighbor’s report of a disturbance between two people at an apartment in the 8100 block of East Harry. Officers found the woman with severe head injuries. It appears she had been struck multiple times with a hammer, Landwehr said.
An EMS crew took her to Wesley Medical Center, where she is in “very critical condition” and unresponsive, he said.
The boyfriend or husband left in a vehicle that crashed on the Kansas Turnpike, and the Kansas High Patrol arrested the man after he was reported to be running between vehicles on the highway some distance from the one-car crash.
According an earlier report, the man was arrested just before 8 p.m. Sunday by Kansas Highway Patrol troopers near 127th Street East and the Kansas Turnpike. Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2011/01/24/1688599/wichita-woman-in-very-critical.html#ixzz1C9cxBbCU
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