On the evening of July 25, 2020, Rodrick Duane Adkins, 41, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at the Comanche Park Apartment complex near 36th Street North and Peoria Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The shooting occurred about 9:30 PM. Adkins was remembered by family and friends as a man with a sense of humor.

Witnesses said an acquaintance, identified as Nia Gaddis, approached Adkins with a shotgun and fired multiple rounds. Investigators were told there had been ongoing tensions between Adkins and Gaddis, who were connected through relatives. Gaddis turned himself in to authorities, told them he had been threatened by Adkins, and was arrested as a previously convicted felon and charged with first-degree murder. Adkins’s funeral was held August 7, 2020, and he was buried at Elm Flat Cemetery in Ada, Oklahoma.

If anyone has information about the events that led to that night at Comanche Park Apartments, please share what is known.