Cornelius Montroll Ogles, a 19-year-old Black male from Oklahoma City, was born on July 11, 1991, and is remembered in public records as a young father whose life ended abruptly on May 16, 2011. Genealogical listings tie him to Oklahoma and note that he left behind a son, Cornell, marking him not just as a name in a case file but as part of a family line suddenly cut short.
On a spring night in 2011, Cornelius was riding through the northeast side of Oklahoma City in a car with another teen, 18-year-old Luke Thomas Asberry. Sometime before midnight, gunfire erupted into the quiet of that residential area. When officers arrived around 11:40 p.m., they found the vehicle sitting near the intersection of North Bryant Avenue and Northeast 15th Street, stopped in the neighborhood with its two young occupants gravely wounded. Both had been hit multiple times, the car turned into a cramped and violent final scene.
The two young men did not survive their injuries. Local coverage at the time identified them as the victims of a double shooting and reported that investigators quickly classified the case as a double homicide, the multiple gunshot wounds leaving little doubt that what had happened was an intentional act of lethal violence rather than an accident. In the days immediately following the shooting, the focus of the public record remains on the stark facts: two youths from Oklahoma City, a car left in a northeast neighborhood, and a burst of gunfire that ended both of their lives in a matter of moments.
Beyond those core details, the story of Cornelius’s death in the public record is marked more by silence than by answers. Summaries that revisit the case classify the shooting as an unsolved homicide and emphasize that, despite investigative efforts, no one has been publicly identified as a suspect and no arrest has been reported in connection with the killing. Years later, his name appears in homicide and memorial databases alongside the date of his death and the city where it occurred, but without any indication that the person who opened fire into that car on a northeast Oklahoma City street has ever been brought to justice.
