On the evening of February 17, 2018, 31-year-old Troy Jamel Smith left his Edenwood Apartments home in north Tulsa telling his girlfriend he planned to visit his mother. Surveillance footage showed him walking away from the complex around 8 to 8:30 p.m., but he was seen later heading north toward the nearby Town Square Apartments rather than west. Residents near North Quincy Avenue and East Young Street reported hearing gunfire that night; officers found Smith in the middle of the street with shell casings nearby. The medical examiner determined he died from a 9 mm gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Detectives said Smith was known to associate with a local gang and that PCP was described as his drug of choice. Four days later, officers arrested two men during a traffic stop after finding a gun; Larry Collins was charged with first-degree murder and William Johnson with accessory to murder. Collins was tried and convicted; the jury recommended life with the possibility of parole, which the court imposed.

Did anyone in north Tulsa at the time see Smith’s movements that night or have information that wasn’t shared with investigators?