A summer 2016 wave of violence in Tulsa ended on August 22 with the death of 34-year-old Marlow Barnes. Investigators tied Barnes to a string of killings that included the shooting deaths of Lana Ellsbury and Dustin Grisham, and they say he shot a woman, stole her car and later set it on fire. He then allegedly took three people hostage in a North Tulsa home.

According to accounts, a struggle over Barnes’s firearm occurred inside that residence and Barnes was shot and killed during the struggle. Marlo Allen Barnes, born October 7, 1981, owned Done Right Janitorial, worked as a mechanic with his father, had lived in California and Tulsa, and was father to eight children; friends and family described him as someone who enjoyed cooking, entertaining and music.

No arrests were made in Barnes’s death because he was killed during the confrontation with the people he had reportedly taken hostage. Does anyone have information about the earlier shootings or the incidents that led up to the August 22 confrontation?