CiLina Teira Bell-Deloney was 21 and a mother of a three-year-old when she was killed on the morning of January 16, 2017. She was last seen at 5:45 AM at a Walmart on Sheridan Road in Lawton, in the company of people she knew. Later that morning a passerby found her body on Paint Road in Comanche County; she had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and investigators think her body was left there between 9:30 and 11:00 AM. Her car was later found abandoned in the Walmart parking lot where she had been seen.

The months before her death included a home invasion that affected her family, but it is not known whether that event was connected to the killing. The Comanche County Sheriff’s Office led the initial investigation; numerous interviews and polygraph tests took place, and a person of interest named in July 2017 was later cleared. In 2020 authorities said they believed they knew who was responsible but lacked evidence, and in December 2021 the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation took over the cold case and offered a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.

CiLina’s death is part of the wider crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women, and her family continues to seek answers. If anyone knew CiLina, saw her that morning, or has information about her last movements, please come forward.