On the night of March 1, 2014, 30-year-old Zachary Bowie of Spencer, Oklahoma, was fatally shot outside a downtown Oklahoma City nightclub in Bricktown. Bowie, a Black/African American man, was among a crowd gathered outside Club Social when trouble began inside: a patron, later identified as Christopher Calvin Benson, was ejected by security and reportedly returned shortly afterward armed. Benson opened fire into the crowd; Bowie was struck, taken to OU Medical Center, and pronounced dead.

Oklahoma City investigators treated the case as the city’s sixth homicide of the year. Surveillance images of the suspected shooter and a woman who had been with him were released, and public tips helped identify Christopher Calvin Benson as the primary suspect. An arrest warrant was issued, Benson was arrested and charged with Bowie’s murder, convicted of second-degree murder, and sentenced to 32 years in prison. An appeal in 2017 raising insufficient evidence and prosecutorial misconduct claims was denied by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals.

Did anyone in Bricktown that night see anything in or around Club Social that could add detail about how the shooting began?