Ryan Brown, a 25-year-old White man from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was shot and killed on September 23, 2020. Deputies, Bartlesville police and emergency medical personnel responded to a 911 call that night reporting an unresponsive man inside a residence within the Bartlesville city limits; Brown was pronounced dead at the scene and had suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators publicly treated the death as a homicide and developed information identifying three local men in connection with the case.

One week after the killing, on September 30, Osage County deputies, assisted by the Bartlesville Police Department, arrested Trevon Lewis and Eric Bartley at an apartment complex and detained Deante Williams as he was leaving the complex. Lewis and Williams were later charged with first-degree murder and treated as the principal defendants; Bartley was charged as an accessory to first-degree murder. Prosecutors said the killing was connected to an attempted armed robbery.

Lewis was eventually sentenced in 2022 to life imprisonment for first-degree murder plus five years for attempted robbery with a weapon. A jury in May 2023 convicted Williams of first-degree murder and robbery with a weapon and recommended life plus 20 years.

If anyone knew Ryan or has information about the events of September 23, 2020, please share what you can.