On September 7, 2008, 16-year-old Donivan LaRon Crutcher was riding as a passenger in a red car near Pine Street and Cincinnati Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after leaving church when a gray Chevrolet Caprice pulled alongside. Three men in the Caprice, seeking revenge for a recent shooting, mistakenly identified the teenagers as rival gang members. Vincent Venom Berry opened fire with an assault rifle, striking all four occupants. Donivan Crutcher was killed. His twin brother Adrion was left paralyzed from the waist down, Jeremy Williams lost vision in one eye, and Jahmal Bryant survived a chest wound.

Investigators arrested three suspects. Vincent Berry was convicted as the triggerman and given a life sentence; Rashad Romone Easley, the driver, was also convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life; Antonio Wells was convicted of accessory to murder. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals later upheld Easley’s life sentence.