Do you know who murdered Jerard? Jerard D. Boyce, a 30-year-old Black man from Oklahoma, was born on August 13, 1969 and died on August 24, 1999, his life ending violently in Tulsa just days after his thirtieth birthday. Public records show that he had spent much of the 1990s entangled with the criminal justice system on firearm and related charges, serving multiple incarceration terms and being discharged from state custody in late April 1999.
Despite that history, accounts about his life describe a man who still had deep family ties; he was a father of six children, and relatives would later recall that he was trying to put past troubles behind him and build something more stable for himself and his kids.
On August 24, 1999, Boyce’s story ended on a patch of ground outside a residence in Tulsa’s north side. That day, he was found lying on the ground next to a vehicle at 3006 North Garrison Place, outside a home in a residential neighborhood. Responding officers discovered that he was already dead when they arrived, his body showing the damage of at least one gunshot wound. Official summaries of the case describe the cause of death simply and starkly: he had been shot, and he died as a result of that gunshot injury. There is no public indication that he was moved from another scene or that he survived long enough to reach a hospital; every official description frames the spot beside the vehicle as both the place he was discovered and the place his life ended.
In the days and years that followed, investigators with the Tulsa Police Department treated Boyce’s death as a homicide and opened a full investigation. The case appears on lists of Tulsa cold cases from the 1990s, noted under his name and the date he was found, with the brief but haunting notation that he was shot to death. Later retellings of the case emphasize where he died: in front of a residence in North Tulsa, beside a vehicle that became a silent witness to the violence. Behind those bare details lies the private devastation for his six children and extended family, who were left to grieve a man whose life had been marked by mistakes but who, they believed, was trying to change course.
Despite the opening of a homicide investigation, no one has ever been publicly identified as a suspect in the killing of Jerard Boyce, and there is no record of any arrest connected specifically to his death. The only arrest and conviction information widely available in public sources concerns Boyce himself, documenting his earlier firearm and assault convictions, not any suspect in his murder. Law enforcement summaries today still describe the case as unsolved, and both the City of Tulsa’s unsolved crimes page and independent cold case projects continue to profile his homicide, asking that anyone with information come forward to the Tulsa Police Department Cold Case Unit or to local tip lines. Decades after he was found beside that vehicle on North Garrison Place, Jerard Boyce’s death remains an open question, his name carried forward in cold case listings and cemetery records while those who knew him wait for a clear answer to who pulled the trigger and why.
