Late on a Tuesday night in Tulsa, a hallway confrontation at the Studio Star Motel ended with 52-year-old Samuel Mack shot multiple times. Tulsa police found Mack and he was rushed to a local hospital, but he died a short time later. The disturbance began when a woman and another individual argued, drawing in others and producing a physical assault on a man who later became central to the case.

Police say two men who were with the woman joined the assault, and that during the struggle the man, identified as Solomon McCall, allegedly produced a firearm. McCall fled before officers arrived but was identified through witness interviews and surveillance footage and arrested the following afternoon. He told investigators he acted in self-defense; he was initially arrested for possession of a firearm after a felony conviction while the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office considers whether to file additional charges related to Mack’s death.

Mack, known by some as Dinky, was remembered as a former Thomas Edison Preparatory School wrestler and football letterman who worked as a welder, and as a married father and grandfather who enjoyed singing, dancing and making people laugh. Does anyone have information about the disturbance at the Studio Star Motel that night or about witnesses who saw what happened?