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Kenneth Dewayne Maxwell was 24 and from Tulsa when he stopped his Nissan Altima on South Yorktown Avenue in the early morning darkness of February 22, 2003, after seeing flames at 502 South Yorktown. While on the phone with 911 around 3:10 a.m., an unidentified man approached his car, the call abruptly cut off, and minutes later firefighters found Kenneth unresponsive in the street; he had been shot in the back of the head.

Inside the burning house firefighters found Fred Barney dead on the floor and Rebecca Barney critically injured by a gunshot to the head; the stove had been pulled away and the gas line tampered with, and a computer tower was missing. Investigators tied online screen names Trueheart481 and Cowboy4you67 to a man who had contacted Rebecca, and phone records showed a call from the Barneys’ home traced to the number at James Lynn Kidwell’s mother’s house in Braggs the previous evening. Detectives say evidence and witness accounts connected Kidwell to the Barneys that night, to the missing computer, and to the scene; he was later arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

Kenneth is remembered in coverage as a passerby who stopped to help and was killed after calling for assistance. Did anyone in the neighborhood see Kenneth’s car or that interaction on the street that night?