On the night of July 30, 2025, 49-year-old Sharmaine Marlene Burke was shot inside her home in the Longbranch Mobile Home Community near Derby, Kansas. Burke made a 911 call at 11:32 p.m., telling dispatchers her 29-year-old son-in-law, Stephen J. Rogers of Wichita, was intoxicated and threatening to shoot her; her eight-year-old grandson was in the home at the time. Minutes into the call the dispatcher heard gunfire and the line went silent. Deputies arrived at 11:41 p.m. and found Burke with multiple gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at 11:57 p.m. after life-saving efforts.

Rogers and the child were gone from the residence when deputies arrived. FLOCK camera detection located Rogers’ vehicle in Augusta, Kansas, at 12:30 a.m. on July 31, and Butler County deputies stopped the car on U.S. Highway 54. Rogers initially refused to exit but surrendered after about fifteen minutes and was booked into the Sedgwick County jail on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated child endangerment. The eight-year-old, who had been in his grandmother’s care after his mother died the previous year, was found physically unharmed and placed in protective custody.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who saw the vehicle leaving the Longbranch community that night or who can add detail about the timeline between the 911 call and deputies’ arrival?