In the late summer of 2014, a quiet street in Tulsa, Oklahoma, became the scene of a sudden and violent end to a man's life. On the morning of September 4th, police responded to calls of shots fired near 66th St. N. and Denver Ave. Upon their arrival, they discovered a man lying on the grass next to a car that had come to rest on the curb. The man, identified as 55-year-old Dwight D. Webb, had been shot and was pronounced dead at the scene.
It appeared as though Webb had been driving the vehicle when the fatal shot was fired. This tragic event marked the city's 36th homicide of the year.
The investigation into the death of Dwight D. Webb quickly focused on a teenage suspect. Detectives tracked down 16-year-old Kourtland Hill, who admitted to being a passenger in Webb's car at the time of the shooting. However, investigators found that Hill's account of the events did not align with witness statements, raising immediate suspicions. The motive for the killing was believed to be robbery, a theory supported by the discovery of some of Webb's personal belongings in an abandoned house, where illegal drugs were also found.
Following his interview with detectives, Kourtland Hill was arrested for the murder of Dwight Webb. He was subsequently charged with first-degree murder and also faced a count of impersonating another person to create liability. In January 2016, Hill, then 17, entered a guilty plea to a reduced charge of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 30 years in the Department of Corrections for his role in the death of Dwight D. Webb.
