TULSA, Okla. — A man is dead after being shot near Pine and Yale on Feb. 28.
On Feb. 29, Tulsa police issued an arrest warrant for 40-year-old Kerri Jo Stevens, who is charged with 1st Degree Murder.
She was arrested later that day.
The Tulsa Police Department said officers responded to the area around 1 a.m. after getting a call about a man down. They found Jeremy Wilkes dead in the yard of a home.
2 News caught up with Christyl Malone, the mother of Wilkes' oldest child.
"We want to know who did it and why, because his kids deserve to know why their dad was killed," Malone said.
Malone is now living in Blanchard, with her son Cravin. She tells 2 News the relationship between Cravin and Wilkes was distant but loving.
Wilkes' brother called her to deliver the news. She described the moments immediately after finding out.
"I didn’t know what to think," Malone said, "The hard part was telling my son, that his dad was murdered. And we didn’t know who did it and why. So, it really scared me."
Officers talked to neighbors in the area who reported hearing a man yelling for help around 12:30 a.m. Police think Wilkes came from a nearby house.
Officers searched the house they believed Wilkes came from and said they "found more evidence to suggest there was some activity related to the crime."
Tulsa police encourage anyone with information about Stevens to call Tulsa Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.
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