Shortly before 1 a.m. on April 23, 2019, a 911 call from a home on Northwest 6th Street in Ontario, Oregon, reported a man shot in the head. Officers arriving found 21-year-old Raymond Kelly dead in his bedroom; there was no gun at the scene. Initial thoughts that the wound might be self-inflicted were abandoned after investigators determined the fatal shot had been fired from outside Kelly’s bedroom window.

The Malheur County Major Crimes Team and the Oregon State Crime Lab responded. Two local residents, 20-year-old Nicholas Tucker and 21-year-old Starr Bales, were interviewed, arrested the same day and charged with murder and criminal conspiracy. Bail was set at $1 million for Tucker and $500,000 for Bales, and the district attorney prepared the case for a grand jury.

Court filings later show both defendants entered guilty pleas and received prison terms: Bales was sentenced to 17 years plus three years of supervision; Tucker to 25 years. Does anyone have information about that night or about Raymond Kelly’s life in Ontario?