Matt Bowens, 39, was shot multiple times and died after being taken to St. Anthony Hospital following a shooting near Northwest 19th Street in Oklahoma City on February 10, 2019. Officers were first called about 9:30 p.m. to reports of shots fired at an apartment complex; when they arrived they could not locate a victim. Police say Bowens fled the scene after being shot in the back and a woman drove him to the hospital.

Investigators described the incident as connected to illegal activity and logged the death as a homicide, one of the city’s early killings that year. Authorities arrested 29-year-old Erika Schwengels on a felony murder complaint and later charged 33-year-old Kristen Brenee Brooks in connection with the killing. Police obtained a first-degree murder warrant for 44-year-old Cheo McCoy, publicly identifying him as the person believed to have shot Bowens; he was later stopped and taken into custody in El Dorado, Arkansas, then held for transport to Oklahoma once medically cleared.

Bowens is remembered online by family and friends as a truck driver, brother and partner whose smile and laugh are missed. If anyone has information about what happened that night, please come forward.