Demetrius Andre Spratt was a 20-year-old Black man from Oklahoma City who was shot dead in the early morning hours of August 13, 2019. Police were called to Bennett Ridge Apartments near Northwest Expressway and North Rockwell Avenue around 2:30–2:35 a.m.; officers found Demetrius suffering from a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses and family described an altercation between Demetrius and another man, which relatives told one local outlet began as an argument about a girl and then escalated. Within hours the search focused on 24-year-old Mantraz Mentray Jones of Oklahoma City; officers stopped a vehicle later that day and took Jones into custody, and he was charged in connection with the homicide.

Friends and relatives remembered Demetrius as outgoing, goofy, soft-hearted and deeply loyal. He had worked as a CNA in home health care, assisting mentally disabled children and caring for babies, and was known to family as Chunky or Tubby. The shooting left his family and community mourning the loss of a caregiver and a beloved relative. If anyone has information about what happened that night at Bennett Ridge Apartments, please come forward.