{"id":64516,"date":"2025-12-08T18:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64516\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:29:09","slug":"attempt-to-locate-person-issued-after-manhattan-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/64516\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt-to-locate person issued after Manhattan homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Riley County police are seeking a person in connection with a weekend homicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An attempt-to-locate has been issued for Erick Sanchez-Chavez, 29, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County police officials said late Monday morning that they wanted to speak with Sanchez-Chavez regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/12\/07\/riley-county-police-investigate-homicide-after-manhattan-man-died-early-sunday\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wibw.com\/2025\/12\/07\/riley-county-police-investigate-homicide-after-manhattan-man-died-early-sunday\/\">the death of Mark Rickenbaker,<\/a> who was injured in an altercation early Saturday in the 800 block of Colorado Street in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Responding officers found Rickenbaker suffering from serious injuries at that location, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Rickenbaker was taken to Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan, where officials said he died.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Riley County police are asking the public's help in finding  Erick Sanchez-Chavez, 28, of...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/RM6XGSOXEFFXJMTJM5JZJ6DG3I.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"549\" \/>Riley County police are asking the public&#8217;s help in finding  Erick Sanchez-Chavez, 28, of Manhattan, in connection with a weekend homicide in Manhattan.(Submitted)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Late Monday mornng, Riley County police said they were attempting to locate Sanchez-Chavez in connection with the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sanchez-Chavez is described as standing 5-feet-8 and weighing 180 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County police cautioned individuals not to approach or attempt to apprehend Sanchez-Chavez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information on the whereabouts Sanchez-Chavez may contact the Riley County Police Department at 785-537-2112 or Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers at 785-539-7777. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Using the Crime Stoppers service allows you to remain anonymous and could qualify you for a cash reward of up to $1,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Riley County police are seeking a person in connection with a weekend homicide. An&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[33743,33742,1027,75,84,83,33411,9,24,63,33744,800],"class_list":["post-64516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-33743","tag-erick-sanchez-chavez","tag-homicide","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-mark-rickenbaker","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-of-manhattan","tag-riley-county-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}