A New Year’s Eve celebration in 2016 turned deadly when 41-year-old Jamal Sandu Barkus was shot at a house near Northeast 32nd Street and Kelley Avenue in Oklahoma City. The shooting occurred during an altercation at the party; first responders arrived in the early hours of the new year and Barkus was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators faced immediate challenges because many people at the gathering fled, complicating witness interviews and evidence collection. Detectives subsequently interviewed witnesses and processed the residence, and police said they were searching for suspects, but no arrests have been publicly announced and the case remains unsolved. Barkus’s death was recorded as the 80th homicide in Oklahoma City for 2016.

If anyone attended that party or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.