Keandre Miller

On a street in north Tulsa, the lives of two teenage friends were cut short by an act of brutal violence in the fall of 2010. Keandre Dewayne Miller, an 18-year-old Black male, was remembered by a former teacher as a favorite student who had a great sense of humor and brought a smile to everyone's face. He and his friend, Michael Matthews, also 18, were navigating the difficult path of early adulthood, with their whole lives ahead of them. Their futures, however, would be stolen from them on a dark Saturday night.

Just after 11 p.m. on November 6, 2010, a passerby made a grim discovery in the 5900 block of North Frankfort Avenue. The bodies of Keandre and Michael were lying in the middle of the street in front of a boarded-up house. Both young men had been shot in the head, and they carried no identification. The Tulsa Police Department immediately launched a homicide investigation. Investigators initially noted that tattoos on the victims suggested possible gang affiliations, but as they delved deeper, they began to believe the motive was not gang-related but rather stemmed from a personal dispute.

The investigation into the double homicide quickly led police to a person of interest who was already on their radar for another horrific crime. Detectives publicly named 19-year-old Dale Curtis Carr as someone they wanted to question regarding the deaths of Keandre and Michael. The announcement came as police were investigating Carr for a separate triple homicide that had occurred a month earlier, on October 7, 2010, at a Days Inn motel in Tulsa. In that case, three people—Joey Mike, 23, Jermiko Thomas, 19, and Toni Ruff, 20—had been found shot to death.

While investigating the murders on Frankfort Avenue, police located and arrested Carr in connection with the Days Inn triple homicide. He was booked into the Tulsa jail on three complaints of first-degree murder for those killings. At the time, police stated they were trying to piece together Carr's "possible involvement in five murders," which included Keandre and Michael. A preliminary hearing for Carr on the triple murder charges was scheduled for January 2011.

In February 2011, while awaiting trial for the triple murder, Dale Carr was sentenced to 12 years in prison for a prior, separate crime: a 2008 shooting he had committed as a juvenile. Subsequently, he was tried and convicted for the three murders at the Days Inn. An Oklahoma Department of Corrections record confirms that Dale C. Carr, born in 1991, is serving multiple life sentences for three counts of first-degree murder committed in Tulsa County. He is incarcerated at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

While the man identified as a person of interest in Keandre Miller's death is behind bars for other murders, no public records indicate that Carr was ever formally charged with the homicides of Keandre and his friend Michael Matthews. The investigation into their deaths has not resulted in any arrests, and the case has grown cold over the years. The trail of public information ends after Carr was named a person of interest, leaving a painful void for the families of the two teenagers.

More than a decade later, the murders of Keandre Miller and Michael Matthews remain officially unresolved. Their families have been left without answers and without justice for the violent loss of their loved ones. The Tulsa Police Department continues to seek information that could lead to a breakthrough in the case. Anyone with information about the murders that occurred on North Frankfort Avenue on November 6, 2010, is encouraged to contact the Tulsa Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.