Courtney Darnell Parks, a 26-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Tulsa on the evening of December 29, 2014. The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. in a common area of the Plaza Hills East Apartment complex near 15th Street and 129th East Avenue. First responders found Parks wounded after he ran behind a building; he later died of his injuries.

Witnesses reported seeing Parks’ 2007 four-door Chevrolet Impala hurriedly leave the scene shortly after the gunshots. The vehicle was later found abandoned about a mile from the complex, and homicide investigators searched it for evidence. The motive was not immediately clear in the days after the shooting.

Investigators later focused on 24-year-old Demario Veshawn Bethany of Tulsa. Prosecutors alleged Bethany lured Parks to the complex intending to rob him and used a .22-caliber revolver to shoot him multiple times. In January 2015 Bethany was charged with first-degree felony murder and attempted robbery with a firearm; a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder after six hours of deliberation.

If anyone has information about Parks, his movements that night, or the abandoned Impala, please come forward.