Jay Creacy, a 52-year-old white male, was found dead inside his southwest Oklahoma City home on the evening of September 10, 2016, after officers were called to check on a possible deceased person at a residence in the 1200 block of Southwest 33rd Street. Responding police discovered his body around 7:20 p.m. and noted injuries consistent with a homicide.
In the days that followed, local reports would mark the killing as Oklahoma City’s 55th homicide of 2016, underscoring how a quiet house on a residential street had suddenly become the center of a major murder investigation.
Inside that modest home, the final moments of the crime were tied to an illicit drug transaction that unfolded behind a closed bedroom door. Accounts later summarized in case archives describe how two visitors, identified as Derek Keith Blacker and Anthony Loman, came to the house that day to sell methamphetamine. During the meeting, Creacy’s girlfriend was present but stepped out of the room at some point in the transaction. From elsewhere in the home she heard a single gunshot. When she hurried back toward the bedroom, she reported seeing Loman running from the scene and then found Blacker still in the room near a mortally wounded Creacy before he, too, fled the residence. The encounter, initially conceived as a drug deal, had turned into a fatal shooting that left the household shattered and the neighborhood shaken.
In the immediate aftermath, detectives canvassed the area and appealed publicly for information while the medical examiner and crime-scene technicians worked through the small home. Early news reports noted that no one had yet been taken into custody, and authorities released few details about the specific cause of death beyond confirming that the injuries matched a homicide. Behind the scenes, however, investigators were already focusing on individuals believed to have been present during the shooting, using witness statements and other leads to piece together the events that culminated in Creacy’s death.
Within days, the investigation produced its first major break. On September 13, 2016, Oklahoma City’s police gang enforcement unit arrested 27-year-old Derek Blacker on a complaint of first-degree murder in connection with the killing at the Southwest 33rd Street home. Police indicated that others were thought to be involved and that the case was far from over. Attention then turned to locating the second suspected participant. On September 21, officers tracked 44-year-old Anthony Loman to a residence in southeast Oklahoma City, where an attempt to arrest him led to a prolonged and tense standoff that stretched for nearly eight hours. Specialized units surrounded the house, negotiators worked to bring the confrontation to a peaceful end, and several officers were treated for heat-related issues before Loman was ultimately taken into custody without further bloodshed.
By late September, Oklahoma County court records reflected that both Blacker and Loman had been formally charged with first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting, marking a decisive turn in the case from open investigation to prosecution. Reports and later case summaries describe the homicide as solved, with the narrative of a drug deal turned deadly now anchored by two named suspects arrested and charged in the weeks following the killing. Though the legal process would move forward in courtrooms rather than on the quiet block where the shooting occurred, the events of September 10, 2016, remained fixed in the public record: a late-summer evening, a single gunshot in a bedroom, and a swift but hard-fought effort by detectives and tactical officers to identify, locate, and apprehend those believed responsible for ending Jay Creacy’s life.
