A dispute over drug money turned fatal in Wichita on October 22, 2015, when gunfire erupted inside a vehicle near 53rd Street North and Meridian. Three men were in the car; 22-year-old Adam Ray fired, believing the occupants had come to collect a drug debt he owed. The vehicle left the road and crashed. Officers found 21-year-old Omar Garcia dead at the scene; Ernesto Aguilar Retana, 21, and a third man were in the back seat with critical gunshot wounds to the head and taken to a hospital.

Ernesto Aguilar Retana died of his injuries on October 27, 2015. Ray fled briefly but confessed to people at a nearby residence and was arrested. He faced multiple charges related to the shooting; the case record shows convictions and a sentence connected to the deaths of Aguilar Retana and Garcia. Did anyone in Wichita know these men or see the vehicle that night and have information that could add clarity to what happened?