In the early hours of May 28, 2020, in southeast Oklahoma City, 42-year-old Daniel Rowland Hardwick was shot and killed while someone allegedly attempted to break into a business. The business owner, 33-year-old Larue Bratcher, told police he saw activity on his security cameras and, after hearing someone at the back door, fired three shots through the locked, secured door. Officers found Hardwick deceased at the scene.

Investigators discovered Bratcher’s business was an unlicensed marijuana cultivation operation containing about 480 plants with an estimated value of $1.5 million. Bratcher was initially arrested for unlawful cultivation of marijuana and cooperated with police about the shooting; he was not immediately charged in Hardwick’s death. After a district attorney review, Bratcher was later charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutors say firing through a solid door without seeing who was on the other side showed a disregard for human life, and that Bratcher’s alleged commission of a felony at the time barred Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground defenses.

Are there witnesses, surveillance footage, or other evidence from that night who can shed light on what happened?