Wichita police say the suspect in a shooting at a Kansas Department of Revenue office asked for his victim by name before opening fire.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback released a statement Tuesday, identifying the man shot as KDOR seizure agent Cortney Holloway, who was listed in stable condition Wednesday morning.

“This is a state employee who was doing his job and enforcing the law. I ask everyone to join Mary and I in praying for Cortney and his family,” Governor Brownback said. “I’m thankful for Cortney’s work and thankful for the police officers who apprehended the suspect.”

Officers were called at around 2:40 p.m. to a shooting at the taxation office in the Twin Lakes Shopping Center at 21st Street and Amidon. Officer Charley Davidson said first responders arrived to find the 35-year-old Holloway who had been shot multiple times. 

"Officers were quickly able to identify and locate a male suspect in the area of 35th and Arkansas, and he was taken into custody without incident," Davidson said.

Jail records identify the suspect as 51-year-old Ricky Todd Wirths. He was booked for attempted first-degree murder and held without bond Wednesday morning. 

Davidson said Department of Revenue and Sedgwick County civil service officials were at the suspect's home Tuesday morning in connection to a Department of Revenue investigation.  

Kansas Secretary of Revenue Sam Williams said Wirths is being investigated for owing nearly $400,000 in unpaid taxes since 2012. A court document shows a state tax warrant was served in June on a business operated out of his home for $196,455.

"The individual who was the focus of the Department of Revenue investigation walked into the Department of Revenue taxation office and asked for the victim by name," Davidson said. "The victim then contacted the suspect in front of the business, and they were discussing about the investigation when the suspect brandished a handgun and fired multiple times."

Holloway retreated back into the office area and the suspect fled in a pickup truck.

Witnesses tell KAKE News there were about 30 people in the DMV right next door at the time of the shooting. Darryl Garcia says he could only wait and watch for police to arrive.

"There was this lady that came in and said there was an active shooter, next door, right next door and then everybody got down."

Jose Rodriguez says his mother called terrified. She thought the shooting was happening in the Drivers License office where she was hiding.

"She said she thought he was inside is what she thought."

The tax office at Twin Lakes where the shooting took place will be closed the rest of the week. The Twin Lakes driver’s license office adjacent to the tax office will reopen for normal operations on Thursday.