On the morning of February 5, 2017, 40-year-old Richard J. Hamm Jr. was found dead of a single gunshot wound to the neck in the passenger seat of a vehicle at the junction of Kellogg and Meridian in Wichita, Kansas. The shooting occurred while Hamm and his 30-year-old girlfriend, Crystal K. Rotramel, were driving; the couple had reportedly been arguing for at least a week. After the shot, the car stopped and initially appeared to bystanders like a traffic accident. One Good Samaritan who stopped said Rotramel immediately admitted to shooting Hamm and called 911.

Rotramel was sitting on a curb when officers arrived and was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder. Court material that emerged during the case described a history of domestic violence, with Rotramel alleging Hamm had hit, kicked, pushed her and had threatened her with a gun on multiple occasions. In March 2018 a judge granted Rotramel immunity from prosecution, finding she acted in self-defense; the court concluded Hamm was shouting, shoving her and threatening to eject her from the moving car, and that her belief deadly force was necessary was reasonable.

Are there witnesses who saw the couple’s interaction on the ramp or who remember stopping to help that morning?