Eddie Percy Chatman was killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on January 23, 1981. He was sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked car outside 643 East 54th Street North with his brother when another vehicle pulled alongside and at least one occupant fired a single shot that struck Eddie. He died at the scene; his brother remained in the car and is the only person publicly known to have been with him that night.

The case is listed among the Tulsa Police Department’s cold cases from the 1980s and appears in local unsolved-crime compilations, which continue to ask for information.

If anyone knew Eddie, was in that neighborhood that night, or has information about a vehicle or people seen near 643 East 54th Street North on January 23, 1981, please contact the Tulsa Police Department’s Cold Case Unit.