Cody Custer Wallulatum, 29, of Madras, was brought by private vehicle to St. Charles Madras late on March 15, 2019, with a gunshot wound and was dead before officers arrived. Police said the shooting occurred earlier that night at a residence on Southeast Eighth Street. The Central Oregon Major Crime Team took over the case and detectives executed several search warrants tied to the Eighth Street home.

Investigators named a person of interest believed to have fled to the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, and the FBI joined Madras police when the probe extended onto tribal land. Weeks later federal authorities said they were looking at a possible connection between Wallulatum’s killing and a man found dead on the Warm Springs Reservation on March 17, 2019, identified in reports as Gunner Johnson Bailey. Contemporary accounts did not announce an arrest in Wallulatum’s homicide.

Did anyone in Madras or Warm Springs have information about what happened at the Eighth Street residence that night?