A dispute in a northeast Oklahoma City neighborhood on the morning of March 26, 2026, ended in a fatal shooting that killed 29-year-old Jerel Smith. Officers responded just before 8:30 a.m. to reports of a shooting near Northeast 11th Street and Missouri Avenue and found Smith with gunshot wounds; he was taken to a local hospital in critical condition and later died.

Police identified 20-year-old August Sobreira Freeland Moeckel as a person involved in the altercation that preceded the shooting. Authorities located Moeckel later that day, interviewed him, and arrested and booked him on a complaint of second-degree murder.

Smith’s family described him as a loving father and began fundraising to transport his body to California for burial. If anyone witnessed the dispute near Northeast 11th and Missouri Avenue that morning or has information about what happened, please share what is known.