Cornelius Montroll Ogles

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 t ...