Nathaniel Sam Ball was 61 when he was found wounded on the floor of his home at 3202 North Norfolk in Tulsa on September 28, 1999. A visitor who dropped by that late September day to buy liquor and check on him discovered Ball conscious enough to say he had been shot, then left to call for help. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene; his injuries were gunshot wounds inflicted inside the residence.

Accounts collected later by cold-case investigators and advocacy groups describe a drive-by shooting in which rounds were fired from a passing vehicle into Ball’s bedroom while he slept. Police records and public cold-case listings note the killing remains unsolved: no arrests, no publicly identified suspects, and no released description of a shooter. Ball’s case remains listed among Tulsa’s unsolved homicides.

If anyone remembers that neighborhood or has information about what happened to Nathaniel Ball that September night, please come forward.