Adrian Thornton was a 20-year-old Black man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, about a week shy of his 21st birthday when he was killed in the early hours of August 6, 2019. Police found Thornton inside a car that had crashed into a tree at the entrance to Towne Square Apartments around 1:30 a.m.; he had suffered a gunshot wound to his upper torso and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators recovered shell casings at the scene and reviewed surveillance video from the apartment complex that, according to police, shows Thornton being shot inside his car while attempting to flee a robbery, after which he lost control and crashed. The Tulsa Police Department’s probe led to two arrests: one suspect a week after the shooting and a second, Deiondre Grundy, taken in Clearwater, Florida, and returned to Tulsa on a first-degree murder charge.

The case was handled in Tulsa County District Court; on January 3, 2020 a guilty plea was entered to an amended charge of first-degree manslaughter, resulting in a conviction and a 15-year prison sentence. Did anyone in Tulsa know Adrian or have information about the events that night?