Teresa Ann Smith was 46 and a lifelong resident of Okemah, Oklahoma. On the evening of January 5, 2019, she went to a rural home along West Highway 56 where her daughter Sabrina lived with her husband Anthony Roy Spain. A 911 call from that address reported a domestic incident and a shooting. Deputies found Teresa dead in the living room from two shotgun wounds, one to the torso and one to the head.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation took over and Spain was detained that night. Authorities charged him with first-degree murder; an initial not-guilty plea was entered on his behalf, but he later waived a jury trial and in January 2020 entered a blind guilty plea to first-degree murder. He was sentenced on June 23, 2020, to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Court filings record Spain’s account that Teresa came at him with a knife and his admission that he shot her; Sabrina told investigators she tried to intervene, then gathered the couple’s four children and fled after the shots.

If anyone knew Teresa or has information about the events that night, please share what can help the record and her family’s understanding of what happened.