On July 18, 2022, around 2:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Nichols Street in Roland, Oklahoma, 42-year-old Stephen Andrew Moravac was fatally shot. Emergency personnel took him to a hospital in Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he died of his injuries. Moravac was born August 6, 1979, in Kansas City, Kansas, and was a retired U.S. Army veteran; his obituary described him as a loving father, son, and brother.

When Roland police arrived they found 34-year-old Cody Nichols, who admitted to shooting Moravac. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation assisted the Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Office. Nichols was taken into custody, arrested the next day at the Roland police station on a complaint of manslaughter, and was later charged with first-degree manslaughter. Authorities did not immediately disclose a motive or the nature of the relationship between Moravac and Nichols.

If anyone knew Stephen, had contact with him that night, or has information about events on Nichols Street that morning, please share what is known.