On February 23, 2024, just before noon, a shooting in the parking lot of Kelly’s Market at Northeast 36th Street and Kelley Avenue in Oklahoma City left three people struck by gunfire. Nineteen-year-old Jamir James, a Black male, was critically wounded by a gunshot to his upper thigh and taken to OU Medical Center. After hours of surgery he died on February 26, 2024, becoming the city’s ninth homicide for the year.

Investigators recovered both handgun and rifle shell casings at the scene and recovered surveillance footage of the attack. Police traced the suspects’ vehicle to a Spencer home the same day and arrested 16-year-old Leonard Newton in the getaway car. The primary suspect, 18-year-old Ziyon Larkins, was captured after fleeing into nearby woods; officers allege he discarded seven baggies of fentanyl pills while running. Larkins was booked on first-degree murder and assault and battery with a deadly weapon; authorities say he confessed and described the shooting as retaliation for someone who had harmed a friend four years earlier. A third person was arrested and charged in connection with the fatal shooting on March 27, 2024.

If anyone has information about the events at Kelly’s Market or saw the vehicle involved that day, please share what is known with investigators.