On February 4, 2020, a road rage dispute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, ended with the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Lakeia Gaines. Gaines was a passenger in a car with another woman and her four-year-old daughter when their vehicle nearly collided with a car driven by 29-year-old Nathaniel Chilcoat near East 51st Street and Memorial Drive. Both vehicles pulled into a Walgreens parking lot and a verbal altercation followed. Gaines reportedly threw a water bottle at Chilcoat’s vehicle, and Chilcoat then fired a gun into the car, striking Gaines in the upper torso. She was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival; the child and the other woman were not physically harmed.

Chilcoat was arrested at the scene and charged with first-degree murder. He was tried on first- and second-degree murder counts; the defense said he acted in self-defense while the prosecution argued the shooting was unjustified. The jury acquitted Chilcoat of both charges on November 19, 2021.