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Oklahoma City Police Identify 15-Year-Old Killed on Halloween, Seek Public Tips

Investigators have not identified a suspect, with motive still unclear.

Overview

  • Diego Esparza-Avila, 15, was fatally shot around 7:30 p.m. Friday near NW 5th Street and Classen Boulevard, five blocks from downtown.
  • Officers arrived to find paramedics treating him, and he was pronounced dead a short time later.
  • Police say he was in a car at some point before the shooting, but the sequence of events remains unknown.
  • Investigators have no suspect description and ask anyone with information to call the OCPD homicide tip line at 405-297-1200 or the Crime Line anonymously.
  • The killing came during Halloween-night gun violence in Oklahoma City, with five other teenagers shot in an unrelated party incident.