Dazmeontae Sayles was a 16-year-old junior at Oklahoma Centennial High School when he was shot and killed at his family’s home in the Summit Ridge Townhomes near Northeast 115th Street and the Broadway Extension in northeast Oklahoma City. The attack happened on a hot Sunday night in early August 2016, around 11:00 to 11:30 p.m. Reports say he heard a knock at the front door, went to answer it, and at that moment at least one person fired through the front door and windows, striking him. He was rushed to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterward.

Investigators documented multiple bullet holes in the front of the residence but released no clear or definitive description of a suspect or suspects, and no one was in custody in the immediate aftermath. Classmates and neighbors marked their grief in different ways, and authorities asked anyone with information to call the homicide tip line.

If anyone was at the Summit Ridge Townhomes that night or remembers details about a knock at the door or vehicles and people in the area around 11:00 to 11:30 p.m., please come forward with what was seen or heard.