Shomari Ray Parks, 35, was killed by gunfire on the night of June 29, 2017, in the Sunnyview Apartments parking lot on Oklahoma City’s southeast side near the 4500 block of Sunnyview Drive. Police responded around 11 p.m. after residents reported shots and chaos; Parks was found unresponsive in his pickup, which had crashed into the side of an apartment building. He was pronounced dead at the scene and the death was ruled a homicide.

Investigators say the shooting followed a planned drug meeting in the parking lot: a teenage buyer arranged to purchase marijuana from Parks and then brought two others, and a witness described the encounter turning into an attempted robbery before shots were fired. In the weeks after the killing, three teenagers were identified in connection with the case — 17-year-old Terrell Prather, 16-year-old Shakil Greer, and 18-year-old Shamar Greer — with the younger two reported as arrested; prosecutors later chose not to pursue murder charges against the 17-year-old and filed a drug-related charge instead.

Parks is remembered by family and friends in online memorials as a son and companion whose absence left a lasting void. If anyone has information about what happened that night, please share it with investigators.