STORY: A driver is in custody after a vehicle drove through a soccer game in Wichita, Kansas, leaving two people dead, including a child, and multiple people injured, police said on Saturday (October 17).

"We have one child who is dead at the scene and one adult," Wichita police Captain Aaron Moses said at a news conference.

Moses did not name them or specify their ages. Multiple people with injuries were taken to hospitals, he said.

Emergency dispatchers started getting calls about the incident at the Stryker Sports Complex at 3:25 p.m. local time (2025 GMT), Moses said.

The vehicle involved had two juveniles as passengers, Moses said. He did not identify the driver or say whether charges would be filed.

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1. POLICE VEHICLES AT SCENE

2. PEOPLE LOOKING ON

3. POLICE ON SOCCER PITCH, AREA CORDONED OFF

4. HELICOPTER FLYING OVERHEAD

5. PARAMEDICS WHEELING OUT STRETCHER

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WICHITA POLICE CAPTAIN AARON MOSES, SAYING:

''This afternoon at about 3:25 pm (2025 GMT), Sedgwick County emergency communications began receiving multiple emergency calls reporting that a vehicle had driven through a soccer game, at Stryker Soccer Complex. Our officers, along with law enforcement from the area, Wichita Fire Department and Sedgwick County EMS, responded to the scene. We have two fatalities confirmed here at the scene and multiple other casualties, with individuals transported to area hospitals. The vehicle involved in this incident remained at the scene. The driver of that vehicle is currently in our custody. There is no additional ongoing threat to the public from that driver. This happened about 30 minutes ago. That's all the information I have to release right now. I'll take questions. Please understand, this happened about 30 minutes ago. All of this is preliminary and subject to change throughout the investigation.''

7. VEHICLE SEEN BEHIND POLICE CORDON

8. POLICE OFFICERS SEEN ON SOCCER PITCH

9. CORDONED OFF AREA

10. AMBULANCE AT SCENE

11. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS TALKING AT SCENE

12. POLICE VEHICLE

13. GENERAL OF SCENE / SOCCER PITCH

14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WICHITA POLICE CAPTAIN AARON MOSES, SAYING:

REPORTER: ''Those two deaths, where they children. How old were they?''

MOSES: ''We have one child who is dead at the scene and one adult. I'm not going to release the specific ages at this time. As we continue to work with notification to family members.''

REPORTER: ''Tell us how many agencies responded.''

MOSES: ''I don't have that number offhand. Multiple. Within the Sedgwick County area, including off the top of my head, I know we have here Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, Bel Air Police Department, Kansas Highway Patrol, Wichita Police, obviously the Wichita Fire Department as first medical responders and then Sedgwick County Emergency Medical Services as well.''

REPORTER: ''Do you know which soccer clubs were on the field?''

MOSES: ''I don't.''

REPORTER: ''How did the vehicle get through the gate?''

MOSES: ''I don't, that'll be part of what we'll look into. I don't have that information at this time.''

REPORTER: ''Do you have any idea how fast the vehicle was travelling?''

MOSES: ''I don't.''

REPORTER: ''Was there anyone else in the vehicle?''

MOSES: ''There were two juveniles in the vehicle.''

15. POLICE VEHICLES ON FIELD

16. AMBULANCE ON FIELD

17. GENERAL OF SCENE

18. VEHICLES ON FIELD

19. AMBULANCES ON SCENE

20. FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLE ON SCENE / PEOPLE LOOKING ON

21. GENERAL OF FIELD, HELICOPTER CIRCLING OVERHEAD

22. EMERGENCY VEHICLES AT THE SCENE

23. POLICE OFFICER WALKING ON FIELD

24. VARIOUS OF FIRE TRUCKS, POLICE VEHICLES

25. PEOPLE IN BLEACHERS

26. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES