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Posted Sep 24, 2026

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At least 7 juveniles arrested in OKC and Norman homicide cases since March 2025; 5 students held after guns found at school

Oklahoma County Courthouse, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma County Courthouse. Photo: Patrick W. Moore, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (uncropped).

At least seven juveniles have been arrested on murder complaints or charged with murder, and at least five students were taken into custody after guns were found at school, in Oklahoma City and Norman between March 1, 2025, and Sept. 24, 2026, according to police releases, a district attorney’s release, court records and news reports reviewed by Facts First.

Time frame: March 1, 2025, through Sept. 24, 2026. Counts include only cases inside Oklahoma City or Norman city limits with a suspect under 18 at the time of the offense. One of the seven (Zaevion Quintral Hill) has since been convicted as an adult; the arrest count still includes that case.

Oklahoma CityNormanCombined
Juveniles arrested on murder complaints or charged with murder617
Students taken into custody after guns found at a K-12 school2 (1 incident)3 (2 incidents)5 (3 incidents)

Public sources confirm adult felony murder charges in two of the seven homicide cases (Hill and Colbert). Hill pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on April 9, 2026. The other five were reported as arrests or bookings on murder complaints. Juvenile court records are confidential. The school count reflects publicly reported cases only.

Increase or more reporting?

The available records do not settle it.

  • OSBI’s Crime in Oklahoma reports list statewide murder arrestees under 18 as 22 (2021), 20 (2022), 22 (2023) and 26 (2024). OSBI has not yet published a 2025 report.
  • Statewide under-18 weapon-law arrests rose from 270 (2021) to 337, 422 and 450 (2024), according to OSBI. These arrests are not school-specific.
  • Office of Juvenile Affairs referrals were 7,829 (2022), 8,971 (2023) and 9,072 (2024). OJA’s 2025 age and sex tables add up to 8,543, but the report’s headline figure is 9,072. Youthful offenders numbered 205, 220, 231 and 241. OJA does not break out gun or homicide offenses.
  • The latest federal count of Oklahoma students with firearms at school is 35 (2021-22). From 2011-12 to 2021-22, the yearly count ranged from 20 to 41. District-level totals were not found.
  • Oklahoma City recorded 91 homicides in 2021, 78 in 2024 and 74 in 2025, according to Mayor David Holt via KFOR.

Neither OKCPD nor Norman PD publishes homicide arrests by age over multiple years, so this 18-month count cannot be compared with earlier periods. Three metro homicide arrests of juveniles in September 2026 drew public comment from District Attorney Vicki Behenna. Four of the seven in-city cases took place in 2025.

Named cases

Facts First names juveniles only when police or prosecutors have released the name, or when the juvenile has been charged as an adult or youthful offender and has a public docket.

  • Zaevion Quintral Hill (17 at offense), Oklahoma City. Police named him in OKCPD release Homicide #48 of 2025. It says he shot Shyanne Crawford, 17, at a home at 1530 NE 20th St. on Aug. 23, 2025. Oklahoma County prosecutors filed adult case CF-2025-4096 on Sept. 2, 2025 (Murder 1st Degree; $10 million bond; held at juvenile detention). On April 9, 2026, Murder 1st was dismissed at the State’s request; Hill pleaded guilty to Murder 2nd Degree and a firearm count — Life S/S with the first 15 years to DOC, plus 5 years DOC concurrent on the firearm. Day-one TV covered the arrest without naming him; desk search through Sept. 24, 2026 found no metro charge, plea or sentence story. See Shyanne Crawford conviction (memorial portrait beside DOC mug). Sources: OKCPD bulletin, OSCN.
  • Warren Colbert, 16, Oklahoma City. Police named him in OKCPD release Homicide #2 of 2026. They say he fatally shot hotel security guard Sunjun July, 22, outside the Wyndham Grand Hotel on Jan. 11, 2026. The district attorney’s office charged him with first-degree murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Case number not yet retrieved. News 9 later reported the charges and arraignment setting.

Unnamed cases

  • June 24, 2025, OKC (Bricktown): A 16-year-old was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in the death of Lyric Lewis, 18. Adult co-defendant Devin Stallings is charged in CF-2025-3476.
  • July 5, 2025, OKC: A 16-year-old was arrested on a second-degree murder complaint in the death of Laililiana Willis, 18.
  • July 8, 2025, Norman: A 16-year-old was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in the shooting of a 22-year-old man at an apartment pool. Kaydron Hutchins, 22, was arrested on an accessory complaint.
  • Nov. 26, 2025, OKC: A 17-year-old was arrested on a murder complaint in the death of an 18-year-old man.
  • Sept. 19, 2026, OKC: A 16-year-old was booked on a murder complaint in the death of Harold Stanley, 58.
  • Schools: two students at Douglass High School, OKC (Sept. 15, 2025); a 16-year-old at Norman North High School (March 23, 2026); two 14-year-olds at Norman High School, where three guns were found (Sept. 16, 2026).

Case numbers have not yet been retrieved for the unnamed homicide cases. The school cases are juvenile matters with no public docket.

Metro context (not counted) Jesse Jackson III, 15, is charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the Oct. 22, 2025, shooting death of Sabestgen Guyton, 17, in Spencer. Juveniles were also booked on murder complaints in Edmond and Del City in September 2026.

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