A dispute over living arrangements at a Springfield, Missouri residence on East Locust Street turned deadly on November 1, 2018. According to investigators, 38-year-old Steven Ray Marler Jr. was shot and killed after Luis Perez, a man who had recently been evicted from the home by his roommates, returned with an accomplice, Aaron Anderson. Witnesses and evidence later presented at trial link Perez to the gunfire that also killed 23-year-old Aaron Joshua Hampton and seriously injured two other residents who survived.

The violence connected to that dispute continued the next day when Perez reportedly shot and killed 21-year-old Sabrina Starr, who had reportedly provided him with the weapon used in the initial shootings. Law enforcement identified Perez and Anderson as suspects; both were arrested and charged.

Did anyone in the Springfield community have contact with Steven Marler or remember the household dynamics at that address before the shootings?