Cristian Amaya Hernandez, 38, was found dead the morning of July 8, 2022, in an east Tulsa neighborhood near East Admiral Place and South Garnett Road. Officers arriving about 7 a.m. discovered him with a single gunshot wound to the head lying near a modest home on a stretch of residential streets; his death was recorded as Tulsa’s 44th homicide of the year.

Investigators focused on a residence on South 108th East Avenue that had previously drawn law enforcement attention. Records later described Hernandez as having been shot to death inside that home. By the evening of July 8, Tulsa homicide detectives and the Fugitive Warrants Unit had identified and arrested 38-year-old Justin Wade Malone, who was booked on a tribal hold for first-degree murder.

Federal filings and a grand jury indictment that followed alleged an argument that evening inside the residence, during which Malone shot Hernandez.

Does anyone have information about Hernandez, the residence on South 108th East Avenue, or the events of July 8, 2022 that could help clarify what happened that night?