Ashley Barr, a 30-year-old mother of three from Weatherford, Oklahoma, was fatally shot on the evening of May 11, 2020. Police were called to a motel in the 500 block of East Main Street where she had sustained a gunshot wound to the chest. Emergency responders transported her to Weatherford Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

A suspect was detained at the scene and identified as 27-year-old Zachary Otto Sherwood, described in reports as Barr’s boyfriend. The Custer County District Attorney’s Office filed a charge of second-degree murder against Sherwood, and he was arraigned in Custer County District Court.

Ashley’s family and the Weatherford community were left to mourn a young mother taken in a violent incident; many details about what happened that night remain to be fully explained. If anyone has information about Ashley, her movements that evening, or the motel on East Main Street, please come forward.