Though rare, Sunday’s quadruple murders in south Wichita are not the first in the city

Quadruple homicides in Wichita are not common, but there have been a few of them in the city's history. Sunday's shootings that left five men dead — including the shooter — are just the latest.

Wichita police said the five men were all related to or known to the shooter. They identified the victims as Anthony Stickney, 67; Donald Dodge, 66; Terry Meyer, 55; and Alan Young, 39, all of Wichita. Police believe that Joshua Stickney, 42, fatally shot the other four before killing himself.

No motive for the shootings has been released.

The circumstances behind the shooting are unknown. Anthony and Joshua were father and son, Dodge was a friend and neighbor of Joshua, Meyer was Joshua's live-in stepfather, and Young was another one of Joshua's neighbors, WPD Capt. Aaron Moses said. The bodies were found in three separate homes in south Wichita.

"Preliminary ballistic examination has provided presumptive conclusion that the firearm located near Joshua is the firearm used in all the shootings," Moses said.

Here is a look at other Wichita quadruple killings in the past half century:

The Carr brothers On Dec. 15, 2000, brothers Jonathan and Reginald Carr invaded an east Wichita home. For hours they terrorized the five people inside before taking them to a field in northeast Wichita.

The Carrs were convicted of robbing, sexually assaulting and murdering 29-year-old Aaron Sander, 27-year-old Brad Heyka, 26-year-old Jason Befort, and 25-year-old Heather Muller and injuring a fifth victim in an execution-style shooting in a snow-covered soccer field at 29th North and Greenwich. Around the same time, they also carjacked and robbed a 23-year-old man and shot to death 55-year-old Wichita Symphony cellist Linda "Ann" Walenta.

The brothers were found guilty of capital murder among other charges and received the death penalty.

In 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court overturned the Carr brothers' death sentences, where they would instead serve life in prison without parole. Two years later, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death sentences of the brothers.

But for years, the brothers have continued to appeal the sentences . Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett previously said the brothers are likely to continue to appeal various aspects of the case for years to come.

In April 2024, a Sedgwick County judge denied a request by Jonathan Carr, now 44, and Reginald Carr, now 46, to be resentenced in the crimes.

The 'Forgotten Four' Just eight days before the Carr brothers' killings, another tragedy occurred in Wichita.

On Dec. 7, 2000, Cornelius Oliver shot and killed four people in a duplex in east Wichita. Relatives found the bodies of the victims and Oliver was arrested at his brother's house later that day with blood still on his shoes.

The victims included his estranged girlfriend, 18-year-old Raeshawnda Wheaton; Wheaton's roommate, 17-year-old Odessa Ford; Ford's cousin, 17-year-old Quincy Williams; and another man, 19-year-old Jermaine Levy.

Oliver, then 19, was dating Wheaton. They reportedly had a violent relationship.

According to news accounts at the time, Oliver shot and killed Wheaton as she clutched a pillow and cowered in a bedroom, begging for her life and saying "I love you. I love you."

Her three friends were killed prior to that. Ford was gunned down as she tried to escape; Williams and Levy were each shot in the back of the head as they sat on a couch playing a video game.

Oliver confessed to the killings and was convicted of four counts first-degree murder. He's currently incarcerated at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility where he's serving a life sentence with no chance of parole until 2140.

Oliver's victims have been called the "Forgotten Four" by some in Wichita because about a week after the shootings attention turned to the homicides committed the Carr Brothers.

Dayton Street murders An attempt to recover $27.50 resulted in four people being fatally wounded in 1974 in Wichita.

Beth Kuschnereit, 21, and three other people were murdered by James Eddie Bell on July 6, 1974. Gary Duvaul assisted Bell in the crime and was convicted.

On the day of the killings, Kuschnereit had visited her parents' home in south Wichita. She later met up with a group of friends, which included Bell and Duvaul.

The group drove to a home on Dayton Avenue near Kellogg and Seneca to recover $27.50 that one of the friends said had been stolen. Kuschnereit waited in the car while everyone else went inside the home.

Inside the house, Bell shot James Waltrip, 22; Oma Ray King Jr., 23; and Patricia Gindlesberger, 21.

Gindlesberger was still alive after being shot, so Duvaul slashed her throat, police said. Kuschnereit was still in the car and unaware of what had just occurred.

She was taken to an abandoned animal shed on a farm in nearby Butler County. Kuschnereit sat on her knees and prayed for two minutes before Bell shot her in the head. Her body was found three months later.

Bell was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to five consecutive life sentences. The killings occurred two years after the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty.

He was denied parole at every hearing since becoming eligible in 1989. He died in prison on July 16, 2019, at the age of 74, Kansas Department of Corrections records show.

Duvaul was convicted and paroled in 1989 in Oklahoma, where he died in 2017.

The Otero family and BTK Dennis Rader, known as the BTK serial killer , terrorized Wichita from 1974 to 1991. He was convicted in August 2005 on 10 counts of first-degree murder.

Rader was 28 when he killed his first victims, the Otero family, in their northeast Wichita home on Jan 15, 1974. The victims included parents Joseph and Julie Otero, 38 and 34, and two of their children, 11-year-old Josephine and 9-year-old Joseph II.

The victims bodies were discovered by the family's three older children, who had been at school.

Rader went on to kill six more people — all women — from 1974 to 1991. He was arrested on Feb. 26, 2005, in Park City after resurfacing in March 2004.

Retired, he was going to quietly "go off the face of the earth," as he put it, never to be heard from again, until he saw a story in The Wichita Eagle on Jan. 11, 2004, about the 30th anniversary of the Otero family murders. He was "kind of bored," now that his kids were grown and gone, Rader said, and he couldn't help himself.

"That really stirred it," Rader told a psychologist hired to determine whether the man who confessed to 10 murders as the serial killer of Wichita was insane.

In notes left behind, Rader gave himself the moniker B.T.K., which stood for "Bind them, torture them, kill them."

Today, Rader, 79, is serving 10 consecutive life sentences at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, with no chance of parole until February 2180, according to Kansas Department of Corrections records.