Norman Gabe Pugh, a 49-year-old disabled Army veteran who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, was shot and killed on April 25, 2021, in the breezeway of his apartment complex near NW 18th and Youngs Boulevard in Oklahoma City. He had been part of a veterans community at the complex and was returning home when he was struck in the back.

Security footage showed Pugh arriving minutes before the shooting. Investigators say the attack began after a 41-year-old man, identified as Reuben Ingram, had been seen erratically beating on apartment doors and driving through the complex looking for a woman. Pugh’s family said he had never mentioned Ingram, and the family described the killing as seemingly random.

Oklahoma City police arrested Reuben Ingram and he was held on a first-degree murder complaint at the Oklahoma County Detention Center without bond while the legal process was in its early stages. If anyone knew Norman Pugh, his routines at the complex, or saw anything that day, please share information with investigators.