Danielle Mahaffey

In the early hours of January 26, 2024, Oklahoma City police responded to a disturbance call at a vacant school building on Northwest 10th Street. The call, which came in just after 1:00 a.m., led officers to a grim discovery inside the derelict structure. They found 35-year-old Danielle Mahaffey, a white woman, who had been shot. She was pronounced dead at the scene from her injuries.

Danielle was not the only person attacked that morning. Alongside her, officers found 29-year-old Joshua Williams suffering from critical gunshot wounds. Emergency responders transported Williams to a local hospital, but his injuries proved too severe. He succumbed to them four days later, on January 30, making the incident a double homicide.

The Oklahoma City Police Department launched an investigation into the two deaths. For weeks, the case remained unsolved, and investigators appealed to the public for assistance, asking anyone with information to contact the department’s homicide tip line.

A breakthrough came in March 2024 when police announced the arrests of two people in connection with the killings. Authorities took Nicholas Tyre Myers, 26, and a 15-year-old into custody for their alleged involvement in the deaths of Danielle Mahaffey and Joshua Williams. Following his arrest, Myers was charged with first-degree murder. As of March 2024, his case was proceeding through the court system.