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Michael Leonhardt, a 47-year-old Black man, was shot to death late the night of November 19, 2016, during a violent home invasion in southwest Oklahoma City. Officers responding about 10:30 p.m. to a single-story house in the 1300 block of SW 21st Street found two men dead inside: Leonhardt and 38-year-old Marcus Green. The scene showed spent shell casings and signs of a chaotic struggle, while neighbors reported hearing multiple gunshots and seeing police flood the street.The investigation evolved from an initial mystery into a probe tied to a planned robbery and possible drug activity at the house. Investigators came to believe Leonhardt had entered the residence with at least one other man and that gunfire erupted inside, mortally wounding him and Green.

Police soon focused on 31-year-old Christopher Dion Norfleet, who arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds consistent with the same incident, and later obtained an arrest warrant alleging his role in the forced entry and shootings. A second man, 51-year-old Vincent Edward Byrd, was later named as an accomplice; officers stopped a white vehicle after the shooting and found Norfleet injured in the car with Byrd driving. Prosecutors charged Norfleet and Byrd with two counts of first-degree murder and related weapons offenses, framing the deaths as occurring during the commission of a violent felony.

Did anyone in southwest Oklahoma City see activity around SW 21st Street that night or know more about the people involved?