Tasha Marie Shepard, 35, was found near a midtown Tulsa bus stop on the night of October 23, 2024, with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Police treated the shooting as deliberate and reported that the shot appeared to have been fired from a vehicle; investigators said it was unlikely to have been random.

Detectives recovered Shepard’s cell phone at the scene and reviewed surveillance footage from a nearby gas station that showed her meeting with a man shortly before the shooting. Text messages on her phone with the same man, exchanged about fifteen minutes before she was killed, were used along with the video to identify a suspect.

Anthony Russell was arrested the next day at a residence near Admiral and Harvard in Tulsa and charged with first-degree murder. Because Russell is a tribal citizen, the case is scheduled for federal court; he was being held on a one-million-dollar bond. If anyone has information about Shepard, her last movements, or the events near that bus stop, please come forward.