Police killings
2013-2020

Chad A. Leichhardt

Male, White

Date of the incident: 8/19/2014

Haysville, Sedgwick, KS
401 Sarah Lane

Three Haysville police officers responding to the report of an active domestic violence incident in a ground-floor apartment at Village Green Apartments on Tuesday came upon a suspect barricaded in a bedroom, holding a woman at knife point, Haysville police said Wednesday. When the armed man – identified by police as 40-year-old Chad A. Leichhardt – refused numerous commands to drop the knife and continued to threaten the woman, one of the officers fired a single shot, killing him.