Tulsa Police Believe Shooting Suspect Growing More Violent

Tulsa police are looking for a murder suspect who's still on the loose. They said they don't know if he is still in the city, or long gone.

Police said Erik Williams shot and killed his former girlfriend Wednesday at the Colonial Park Apartments.

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The homicide detective investigating the case described Williams as armed and dangerous and known to use drugs and guns.

They believe he was looking for the victim, found her, shot her, and fled.

There's a makeshift memorial at the Colonial Park Apartments, where several people saw a young woman as she was shot to death Wednesday afternoon.

The police said it was anything but random, and that the 37-year-old suspect was looking for 24-year-old Christian Shockley.

“Some people said they were fighting, they would have domestic violence in the front yard of their house. That relationship recently ended maybe three, four, five days ago. He had been using methamphetamine and that put him in a state of mind where he's not thinking clearly,” said Tulsa Police Sergeant, Dave Walker.

Police said Williams fled to a nearby apartment complex, Autumn Ridge, where he abandoned his truck. They watched it for ten hours, but he never returned.

They since found another car he used and they have that too.

“Even though we stole his car so to speak, he's getting around somehow. So there's people out there that are in his underground, they're helping to conceal him, and we're trying to reach out and touch those people, and eventually those people will be the ones that lead us to him,” said Walker.

When the shooting happened, police said the witnesses were able to describe the truck well so it didn't take long to identify their suspect; now they just need to find him.

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Though his only conviction is for public intoxication, police said in his vehicles they found drugs and guns and believe he's growing more violent.

"He premeditated a murder. He drives up, sees her, gets out of his truck, pulls his gun, shoots his ex-girlfriend in front of a lot of other people, so obviously he targeted her, and then got back in his truck and left and then put his plan in motion to escape and so far he's been successful doing that,” Walker said.

The suspect has ties to the Pryor area and detectives are working on those connections to find him.

Police ask anyone with information to either call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.