Janica Shoals was 50 when she was shot and killed in northwest Oklahoma City in May 2012. The death was ruled a homicide by gunshot. Investigators later arrested Ryan Cody Gothard in connection with the killing; Gothard acknowledged the circumstances of their meeting but denied firing the fatal shot. A jury convicted him of murder and imposed a life sentence.

Gothard pursued appeals challenging trial decisions, saying a defense witness had been wrongly barred and that the prosecution’s firearms expert required a hearing. In March 2015 the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied those claims and upheld the conviction and life term.

If anyone knew Janica Shoals, her movements in northwest Oklahoma City that May, or has information about the shooting, please share what you know.