On December 4, 2024, 81-year-old Gary Wayne Mulbery was shot in a Walmart parking lot in Woodward, Oklahoma, while loading groceries into a vehicle. He was airlifted to OU Health in Oklahoma City but died later that night. His 42-year-old daughter, Christina Marie Alewine, was also shot and pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities describe the incident as a double homicide that shocked the small communities of Woodward and nearby Laverne.

Woodward Police quickly identified and arrested 30-year-old Shane Allison of Beaver County near a detention pond west of Woodward High School. Allison surrendered without a chase and was booked into the Woodward County Jail on two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of possession of a sawed-off weapon. Police say he confessed, told investigators he had planned the attack a day earlier, and was found with a revolver plus a bag containing a sawed-off shotgun, a rifle, and a large amount of ammunition. Reportedly the killings were tied to a personal dispute: Mulbery had been in a relationship with Allison’s mother, Allison and his mother had been living on Mulbery’s property, and Allison told police he knew an eviction was imminent.

Was anyone in Woodward or Laverne that day aware of tensions at that household or saw the group while they were shopping?