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Trenton Custer, 39, was shot and killed inside a trailer home in the 3800 block of South Meridian in Wichita during a domestic dispute. Custer lived in the trailer with his girlfriend and other roommates; a disagreement reportedly began over those roommates not contributing to household bills. The quarrel escalated when DeWayne A. Cope, who had moved into the trailer and was having an affair with Custer’s girlfriend, intervened and shot Custer twice, with fatal wounds to the back and chest.

A neighbor discovered Custer’s body after crawling through a window to enter the trailer. Cope and the girlfriend left the scene and spent about two weeks moving between friends’ houses and hotels, including travel to Oklahoma, before law enforcement took Cope into custody. The initial charge was first-degree premeditated murder, though a key witness’s absence led to a temporary dismissal at a January 2019 preliminary hearing.

Who has information about the events at that trailer or the days that followed?