In the early morning hours of July 7, 2019, 23-year-old Jared Lance Roybal of Tonkawa was shot while driving a van through east Stillwater. Roybal was in the driver’s seat with his brother and a 16-year-old passenger when they encountered two vehicles stopped in the roadway and an argument between two men. According to accounts, one of the men, later identified as 29-year-old Darwin Lonestar Marcel Doyal of Stillwater, began yelling at Roybal; as Roybal started to respond, Doyal produced a handgun and fired a single shot that struck Roybal in the neck.

Roybal’s brother drove him to a nearby convenience store parking lot where an employee called 911. Emergency personnel transported Roybal to Stillwater Medical Center at about 1:45 a.m.; he was later airlifted to OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City and pronounced dead later that morning. Doyal was arrested by Stillwater police at 4:15 a.m. the same day and was booked on a murder complaint; he was later charged with first-degree murder or, alternatively, first-degree manslaughter, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation on the east side of Stillwater that morning or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please share what is known.