Family and friends gather to remember Bartlesville shooting victim 1 year after death

BARTLESVILLE, Okla. — Family and friends gathered to remember a Bartlesville man who was shot and killed one year ago.

Codie King was shot and killed last year at the Brookhaven Apartments last year.

“On March 22 last year he got into a fight with somebody who broke into an apartment and ended up getting shot,” said Jackie Wilson, the former girlfriend of Codie King.

According to court records, the shooter, Colton Tallchief, admitted to the shooting and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

In Tallchief’s plea, he said went to the apartment to pick up a girl with Joshua Brown. Tallchief said he eventually went into the apartment and found Brown and King fighting.

Tallchief said he shot King upon a sudden quarrel and in the heat of passion.

Wilson said King was the kind of guy would do anything for anybody.

”He was a great guy he would do anything for anybody he would give his shirt off his back to somebody in need,” Wilson said.

King’s family and friends gathered at a skate park in Bartlesville after a full year of grieving to keep King’s name alive.

They released balloons in his honor and shared memories and pictures of King.

Before Wilson released her balloon, she said nothing was going to stop them from remembering King, not even the rain.

“We are just trying to celebrate his life. He’s been gone for a year and we just want to keep his memory alive. He was very caring, he didn’t care about the elements, he would go anywhere he needed to go to be with whoever he needed to be with and help whoever on the way,” Wilson said.

King’s close friend, Jordan Everly, said King meant the world to him.

“I love that dude to death, and I think he was stolen from us too soon, and he shouldn’t have gone out the way he did because he didn’t deserve that cause he wouldn’t have done that to nobody ever,” Everly said.

While this is the memorial of his passing after a year, they said they plan to do this every year and they are even planning to go back for his birthday in May as a way to continue to keep his name alive.