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Shawn Dehn Summers, 37, of Lubbock, Texas, was found shot and burned in his vehicle near East Loop 289 and 19th Street on October 31, 2015. Authorities say he was lured to that location by text messages promising sexual favors and was ambushed and killed. His death was part of a double homicide that also claimed the life of his ex-girlfriend, Jessica Payton, who had been shot on October 28, 2015.

The investigation by the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office led to charges against Mark Bethel and his cousin David Bethel. Testimony and evidence presented at trial described a conspiracy by the cousins after Mark Bethel discovered an affair between Payton and Summers. David Bethel pleaded guilty to Summers’s murder and received a 40-year sentence in March 2019; Mark Bethel was found guilty of capital murder in both deaths and sentenced to life in prison.

Does anyone have information about Summers’s movements in Lubbock in the days before October 31, 2015?