Henry Battles, a 64-year-old African-American man, was shot during a late-night confrontation in northeast Oklahoma City on October 27, 2011. A disagreement between Battles and 58-year-old Larry Richardson near N.E. 14th Street and Washington escalated in the street around 11:45 p.m. when a 17-year-old, Jimmy Owen, arrived and produced a gun. Both Battles and Richardson were struck and taken to hospital. Richardson died of his wounds on November 10; later records also list Battles as a homicide victim at age 64 connected to that shooting.

Police quickly identified and arrested Owen as the shooter and said they were not seeking additional suspects, describing the incident as a single-shooter event. Public details about Battles’s medical condition after the initial shooting were not released, and later homicide databases record the case as solved with Battles listed among the victims.

If anyone knew Battles, Richardson, or saw the encounter that night, any information could still be important.