On the evening of December 8, 2023, a dispute in the parking lot of a convenience store near East 61st Street and South Peoria Avenue in Tulsa turned deadly. Twenty-four-year-old Kareem Curtez King, a Black/African American male, was struck in the head by gunfire, taken to a local hospital, and died of his injuries. A woman identified as King’s girlfriend was also hit in the chest and treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening wounds.

Witnesses and the injured woman gave police descriptions and a direction of flight for the shooters. Officers later located a group matching that description at a nearby apartment complex and, after interviews and evidence collection, arrested 26-year-old Jaquan Stites. Stites was charged with first-degree manslaughter, assault and battery with a deadly weapon after a prior felony conviction, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Who in the neighborhood saw the confrontation or remembers anyone leaving the convenience store parking lot that night?