Deangelo Hinds

On a Monday afternoon in northwest Oklahoma City, a burst of gunfire set in motion a chain of events that would leave two men dead. Around 4 p.m. on December 5, 2016, an officer near Northwest 10th Street and North Indiana Avenue heard gunshots and responded to the area. There, officers found Deangelo Hinds, a 38-year-old Black man, lying in the street in the 1700 block of NW 10th Street. He had been shot multiple times.

Hinds was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition. As police continued to investigate the scene, they discovered a second victim. Inside a parked vehicle in the 1700 block of Northwest Ninth Street, they found 33-year-old Bruce Griffin, who had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene. Griffin's death was recorded as the city's 70th homicide of 2016.

For more than a month, Deangelo Hinds fought for his life in the hospital. He ultimately died from his injuries on Friday, January 13, 2017. His death became Oklahoma City's fourth homicide of the new year.

According to investigators, the case was a complex one. Police came to believe that Hinds had shot and killed Bruce Griffin. They theorized that after Hinds shot Griffin, a third, unidentified person shot Hinds. While Hinds was still hospitalized, authorities filed an arrest warrant for him in connection with Griffin's murder. The person who shot Deangelo Hinds, however, was never identified. As of January 2017, no arrests had been made in his killing, and the case remains unsolved. Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide tip-line at 405-297-1200.