Catrina Jo Pope, 37, was fatally shot at her McAlester, Oklahoma, home on February 5, 2020, in what authorities described as an act of domestic violence. Catrina was remembered by family and friends as friendly and caring. She was born August 31, 1982, graduated McAlester High School, earned an associate degree from Eastern Oklahoma State College and two bachelor’s degrees from Southeast Oklahoma State University, and worked at Jackson Hewitt Tax Service and as a Walmart stocker. She volunteered at a home daycare for 13 years and was mother to two daughters.

Investigators quickly focused on her husband, Jonathan James Tubbs, who was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. A Pittsburg County jury found Tubbs guilty in May 2021; during sentencing the judge, noting a lack of remorse, imposed life with the possibility of parole and required Tubbs serve at least 85 percent of that term before parole consideration. Catrina’s family gave emotional victim impact statements describing the void her death created.

If anyone knew Catrina, her family, or has information about her life in McAlester, please share what might help remember her or support the ongoing record of the case.