Shametra Jeanell Fields-Daniyan was a 25-year-old mother from south Tulsa described by family and friends as warm, energetic, and full of life. In the early hours of Monday, September 10, 2012, gunfire erupted at an apartment complex near East 63rd Street and Peoria Avenue. Three people were critically wounded at or near 1209 East 63rd Street, Apartment D; Shametra was among them and died at St. John Medical Center on the night of September 11, 2012.

Police say witnesses identified two men, Everett Monte Wilson and Ronnie Burnett Jones, as having gone to the apartment intending to rob its occupants. Officers allege one of the men wore a mask while the other confronted people inside with a .45-caliber handgun; multiple shots were fired, and at least one woman walking near the apartment was struck. Wilson and Jones were arrested the day after the shooting and charged; prosecutors added first-degree murder complaints after Shametra died.

Shametra’s death transformed a terrifying early-morning shooting into a homicide case that deeply affected her family and neighbors in south Tulsa.