On September 13, 2016, Alfredo Smith, 29, was found dead at an apartment complex in northwest Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Police had been called to the complex after reports of shots fired, arriving to a scene that suggested violence had erupted suddenly in an otherwise ordinary residential setting.
When officers reached the location, they discovered a truck still running, its engine left on as it had rolled forward into a nearby fence. Beside that vehicle lay Alfredo, shot to death next to the truck, his life ended there in the parking area of the complex. The detail of the vehicle, still in gear and no longer under anyone’s control, added to the sense that whatever had happened had been abrupt and chaotic, leaving little behind but the physical traces of the shooting and the lingering questions that followed.
The case is classified as a “death by force,” with Alfredo’s date of death and the date he was found both recorded as September 13, 2016, in Oklahoma City. Publicly available case records list his age, the location in northwest Oklahoma City, and the circumstances of his body being found beside the running truck, but offer no explanation of what led to the confrontation or who might have been involved.
In the years since, Alfredo’s killing remains marked as unsolved. Case listings explicitly indicate that it has not been cleared and provide no mention of any arrests, named suspects, or persons of interest connected to his death. The absence of additional linked sources, beyond the basic outline of what officers found that day, reinforces how little is publicly known about the shooter or the motive. Online, his case appears among other unsolved Oklahoma homicides, accompanied by an open call for updates or information from anyone who might know more, a stark reminder that his killer has not been held to account and that the story of what happened to him that day is still incomplete.
