On the evening of September 11, 2015, 39-year-old Jeremy Alan Saldana was shot and killed at a residence in Great Bend, Kansas, where he was living. The shooter was Freddie Alec Thomas, then 49, a former correctional officer. The confrontation began after Thomas, who had been dating Saldana’s ex-girlfriend, accompanied her to the home of her daughter and son-in-law; Thomas did not know Saldana was living there. When Saldana arrived, a physical fight between the two men erupted in the front yard.

During the struggle Thomas, who was armed, shot the unarmed Saldana three times; emergency responders were unable to save him. Thomas was arrested at the scene and charged with first-degree murder. He asserted self-defense and was briefly granted immunity by a district judge; that ruling was reversed by the Kansas Court of Appeals and the case was returned for trial. In August 2022 a jury convicted Thomas of voluntary manslaughter.

Does anyone have memories of the neighborhood or additional information about that night that could shed light on what happened?