Curtiss Eugene Gaines, 33, was found dead at his Tulsa residence in the early hours of June 18, 2019. The scene initially suggested a self-inflicted shotgun wound because a shotgun lay beneath his body, but investigators determined he had been fatally shot in the upper torso with a pistol.

Investigators say Gaines received a phone call at about 3:00 a.m. from a woman later identified as Nicole Deonn Williams; that call was traced to a phone belonging to her boyfriend, Barton Roy Vann. Around 3:30 a.m. Williams and Vann were driven to Gaines’s home by another person who waited in the vehicle, believing the couple intended to buy drugs as they had before. The account states Vann produced a handgun to rob Gaines, a struggle followed during which Gaines armed himself with a shotgun, and Vann fired the fatal shot.

Williams was charged with first-degree felony murder and robbery in Indian Country, and Vann was scheduled to face trial in connection with Gaines’s death. Does anyone have information about Gaines’s movements that night or about the people who drove Williams and Vann to his home?