Jamal Barkus, 41, was shot to death inside a modest home in northeast Oklahoma City on the night of December 31, 2016. Police were called about 11:29 p.m. to a house in the 900 block of Northeast 19th Street near NE 23rd Street and Kelley Avenue; officers found Barkus already beyond help and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing was recorded as the city’s final homicide of 2016, the seventy-eighth killing that year, coming just over an hour after another fatal shooting elsewhere in Oklahoma City.

Detectives opened a homicide investigation, but early reports noted no suspects and no arrests were announced. Little else is publicly known about motive or circumstances inside the home.

If anyone knew Jamal Barkus or has information about what happened that night, please contact the Oklahoma City Police Department’s homicide tip line.