On November 10, 2019, 26-year-old Mandrale Alexander Henry was shot and killed inside a Stillwater, Oklahoma home following an argument with his girlfriend, Brittany Gentzler, over messages on his cell phone. The argument drew others in the house; Gentzler’s foster-son figure, 17-year-old Coryon Lauray Maryell Thomas, retrieved a 20-gauge shotgun and stood in the hallway near the couple’s bedroom. Henry was kneeling on the floor in front of Gentzler, who sat on the bed with the couple’s eight-month-old child nearby, when Thomas fired a single shot that struck Henry in the right side of his back.

Gentzler called 911 and performed emergency measures while Henry was taken to Stillwater Medical Center; he was breathing but later died from his wounds. Thomas took the shotgun outside briefly before returning to help Gentzler and later told police he feared Henry might have had a hidden gun and that he had heard reports Henry had been physically abusive toward Gentzler, though he had not witnessed it himself. Thomas, 17 at the time, was charged as an adult with first-degree murder and held without bail in a juvenile facility.

Does anyone have additional information about interactions in the household before that night or about witnesses who were present?