HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A man who tried to kill a woman and shot at a car with her and their children in it pleaded guilty on Thursday, before his trial was scheduled to start Monday.
According to Reno County Senior Assistant District Attorney Kimberly Rodebaugh, on Thursday Kamden Campos plead guilty to one count of aggravated kidnapping, no contest to four separate attempts to kill the woman, guilty to knowingly causing great bodily harm to the 22 month old in the car, as a bullet had entered the license plate, gone through the car seat and entered the back of the minor child.
Campos also plead no contest to attempted murder in the first degree of a baby who was also in the back seat when the car was shot at and plead guilty to two counts of criminal threat.
The pleas of guilty were admission of guilt. The no contest pleas were admissions that the State of Kansas had sufficient evidence to prove his guilt and that evidence was not contested.
The prosecution informed the Court of the factual basis to support the counts and he was then found guilty.
Sentencing is set in Division I on June 7, 2024 at 9:30 a.m.
In July of 2022, Campos was arrested after allegedly abducting a woman and her family in Wichita. They drove out to Cheney Lake. When the woman tried to escape in a vehicle, Campos allegedly shot at the vehicle, hitting a 2-year-old girl.
The woman drove into Sedgwick County and called 911. The child was taken to Wesley Medical Center where she underwent surgery and has recovered.