Kim Edwin Hayes, a 26-year-old Black man and father, was fatally shot outside his home on West Virgin Street in the Gilcrease Hills neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of January 5, 2020. He was remembered by family as a devoted father to a young daughter, a loving son and friend, and someone who encouraged others while trying to build a future for his family.

Tulsa police made a rapid arrest in the case when 28-year-old Charles Boaz was taken into custody near the Tulsa Hills shopping center on January 8, 2020, and charged with Hayes’s murder. Several months later, in October 2020, Lawrence Mitchell was also arrested and booked into the Tulsa County Jail in connection with Hayes’s death. A motive was not disclosed in initial reports, and legal proceedings were underway.

If anyone knew Kim Hayes or has information about the shooting, please come forward to help the ongoing investigation.