Do you know what happened to Tyrone? On a late spring day in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the life of twenty-four-year-old Tyrone Boxley was cut short. On May 30, 2003, Boxley was the victim of a drive-by shooting on Skelly Drive. He was quickly transported to Tulsa Regional Medical Center, but he ultimately succumbed to the injuries he sustained in the attack. The perpetrators, who were driving a black vehicle, fled the scene and have never been identified.
The investigation into Boxley's death was complicated by his own recent legal
troubles. Just a couple of months prior, on March 19, 2003, first-degree murder charges against him had been dropped. Boxley had been accused in the shooting death of another 24-year-old man, Charles Anderson, at a Tulsa car wash the previous summer. While the dismissal of the charges cleared his name in that case, the circumstances surrounding his own violent death raised questions about potential connections to his past.
Despite the efforts of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement agencies, the case of Tyrone Boxley's murder remains unsolved. No arrests have ever been made, and no specific suspects have been publicly named. The shooting is one of many cold cases in the Tulsa area, a painful reminder of a violent chapter in the city's history. The community and law enforcement continue to hope that new information might one day come to light, bringing a measure of justice and closure to Boxley's family.
