On Valentine’s Day 2022, 30-year-old Kayla Julia Cherice Yates, a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, was found shot to death inside a car in Oklahoma City. A welfare check just after 10 a.m. led police to the vehicle parked off Northwest 10th Street near Portland Avenue, where Yates and 40-year-old Raymond Lindsey Paddyaker Sr. were discovered; both had been shot in what was ruled a double homicide. Yates, days away from her 31st birthday, sustained a gunshot wound to the head.

A Geary High School graduate, Yates was a mother of five and worked as a nursing assistant. Her brother described her as a fun loving person with a great personality who always had a big smile. The family has said they want whoever is responsible to be brought to justice. The investigation continued for months without an arrest.

Does anyone with information about Kayla’s movements on February 14, 2022, or who saw a vehicle parked near Northwest 10th and Portland that morning, have details to share?