Cameron Stewart Jr. was 38 years old when his life came to a violent end on August 14, 2017, in southwest Oklahoma City. On that Monday, he found himself outside a small neighborhood business, the Puran Star Food Mart at 1107 S. Exchange Avenue, a modest gas-station market that serves drivers and local residents moving through the area. What began as an ordinary stop at a metro gas station became the setting for a fatal confrontation that would later be counted among the city’s homicides for
that year.
According to police, Stewart became involved in a fight with at least one other person outside the gas station. The altercation, unfolding in the open air of the parking area, escalated quickly and turned deadly when he was stabbed. The attack left him fatally wounded on the same day, transforming an otherwise unremarkable corner of southwest Oklahoma City into a crime scene marked by flashing lights and police tape. The Oklahoma City Police Department later confirmed that Stewart had been killed in the stabbing and formally recorded his death as the 51st homicide of 2017 in the city, underscoring how yet another act of violence had abruptly erased a life.
In the immediate aftermath, detectives treated the area around the Puran Star Food Mart as a murder scene, seeking to understand how a dispute between Stewart and at least one other individual had spiraled into lethal violence. Officers reported that the victim had been identified as Cameron Stewart Jr., and early coverage emphasized the suddenness of the attack and the fact that it appeared to stem from a fight rather than a random assault. Despite the public nature of the setting, with the gas station positioned along traveled streets in southwest Oklahoma City, investigators did not announce any quick breakthroughs or name any suspects in the days that followed.
Police made clear that no arrests had been made in connection with the stabbing, leaving the identity and motives of the person or people who fought with Stewart shrouded in uncertainty. As time passed, the lack of publicly named suspects or charges signaled that the case had not moved toward a courtroom resolution. Online homicide records continue to list the case as unsolved, noting Stewart’s age, gender, race classification, and the date and location of his death but offering no indication that anyone has been arrested or held accountable. Together, the early reports and later case summaries paint a stark picture: a 38-year-old man stabbed to death outside a neighborhood gas station during a fight, and years later, an open homicide with no publicly identified suspect to answer for what happened on that August day.
