In the early morning hours of October 22, 2018, a dispute in the parking lot of the Delux Inn in Wichita, Kansas, turned deadly. Jackie Jerome, a 43-year-old Caucasian man, was found with multiple gunshot wounds and died at a nearby hospital less than an hour later. An autopsy reported he had been shot four times; one bullet entered his back and caused catastrophic damage to his spinal cord and a lung.

Investigators tied the shooting to Cory Wayne Bentley, then 22, after determining Bentley and others had arrived at the motel and a confrontation followed. Police say Bentley fired a handgun multiple times. The apparent motive was connected to a minor drug transaction the previous day; Bentley later told police he bought what he believed was ice for $15 from a man he thought was Jerome and felt panicked after using it. Bentley was arrested the day after the shooting and charged with first-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm by a felon.

The killing left a surviving son who traveled from Iowa after learning of his father’s death. Does anyone have information about Jerome’s last movements or saw what happened at the motel that night?