Christopher Jerome Johnson, a 51-year-old Black man, was shot in his North 6th Street apartment in Muskogee on the afternoon of Saturday, March 4, 2023. Officers responded after a report of a shooting shortly after 1:30 p.m. and found Johnson in apartment #20 with a severe gunshot wound to the head; he was taken to a Tulsa hospital and died the next day, recorded as having died on March 4, 2023.

Neighbors described Johnson as kind and sociable, someone who enjoyed playing pool and treated people with respect. One neighbor said she heard a sudden pop while walking her dog; another who had lived with Johnson for about a year called the shooting senseless. The Muskogee Police Department opened an investigation as the city’s first fatal shooting of the year but reported no immediate leads on a suspect or motive and no arrests.

If anyone saw or heard anything near North 6th Street around 1:30 p.m. on March 4, 2023, or has information about Johnson’s death, please come forward.