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On the night of August 1, 2016, 54-year-old Phillip A. Little was fatally shot on the porch of a trailer home in El Dorado, Kansas. Little had been visiting a trailer belonging to Skylar Morgan with several others when the confrontation escalated into violence. Nathan Coe, aware of ongoing bad blood between Little and Howard R. Pruitt, phoned Pruitt to say where Little could be found. Pruitt drove to the trailer with another person, carried a sawed-off .410 shotgun, concealed himself outside and, when Little and Coe stepped onto the porch, emerged and fired, killing Little.

Coe was initially arrested and charged with the murder and spent 104 days in custody before those charges were dismissed. Investigators later obtained a tip that led to recovery of the sawed-off shotgun from the Walnut River. Howard R. Pruitt was arrested, tried, and a jury found him guilty of premeditated first-degree murder; he received a life sentence for the killing of Phillip Little.

Does anyone have information about the altercation that preceded this shooting or knew Little’s connections in El Dorado?