Charley Wesley Kirk, 88, a lifelong rancher and operator of the Tahlequah livestock auction, was shot and killed in his home in late July 2015 in what investigators described as a robbery gone wrong. The death is reported to have occurred on or around July 27, 2015.

Two men, 24-year-old Paul Newberry and 22-year-old Cheyenne Watts, were identified as suspects and are reported to have confessed to breaking into Kirk’s home to burglarize it. Both told investigators the other pulled the trigger, leaving which of them fired the fatal shot in dispute. The arrests followed after a Choctaw Nation police officer spotted a suspicious vehicle outside a tribal casino in McAlester and the two were subsequently apprehended.

Kirk was well known locally for his skill with horses and his decades running the area livestock auction. Does anyone have information about Kirk’s last days or the events around the July 2015 break-in?