Police Identify Victim Of Deadly Shooting In NW OKC

Oklahoma City Police have identified the man shot and killed in the 8900 block of N. Hudson Ave. as 29-year-old Anthony Penn.

Penn's family members say he just got out of prison six months ago. They say he had found God and had turned his life around after spending years of it in a gang. Now to have him end up at the morgue is just too much to bear.

“He's been home for five months. He has not been in a gang and was not going back to the gang, " said his mother Davietta Penn. "His life has just been taken for no damn reason!"

With tears in her eyes, this family friend brings flowers to the place where Penn was shot and killed.

"I've been through it before, I lost my brother," said the friend. "And not only is this my friend, he's like family. So it just needs to stop.”

She doesn't want to share her name, she's too scared. She's seen too much violence already in her young life.

"It’s pointless, it’s senseless," said the friend. "This man that changed his life around. He worked every day to the point to when his car messed up, he walked."

The friend says she had just spoken to Penn three days ago and she just can't believe he's gone, especially knowing how far he had come in his journey to leave his criminal past behind.

Court and prison records confirm that Penn served five years in prison for concealing stolen property and drug related charges. His mom says it was during the time he was locked up, he found God.

He not only professed it on Facebook, he was living it, and was just walking down the street from his mom's house to another family friend in the neighborhood when he was shot and killed in the middle of N. Hudson Ave. near NW 89th Street.

"This world is getting out of control," said Davietta. "Black people killing black people, you can't be safe nowhere!"

This marks the 56th homicide in Oklahoma City this year, and police confirm we've had 11 murders in just the past 30 days.

If you have any information that can help police solve this murder or any of the others call the homicide tip line at (405) 297-1200.