Tulsa Juneteenth festival shooting stemmed from rap video posted online, police say

Tulsa Police have made a second arrest in the Juneteenth shootings and say a rap video posted online was the motive for one of the shootings, where seven people were shot.

Police say ten people were shot that night and they say Darmontre Peters opened fire and shot seven of them, including six who were innocent bystanders. Peters was arrested on several assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charges.

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Police also arrested Timetrious Moore, who police say also opened fire about 90 yards away from the initial shooting and and killed Isaiah Knight.

The investigation:

Homicide detectives say this was an extremely complex investigation. They worked around the clock and watched hundreds of hours of surveillance video.

"You kind of felt the magnitude of this one, that this is something we needed to throw everything in the kitchen sink at in order to get solved," said Lieutenant Brandon Watkins with Tulsa Police Homicide.

Investigators say one of the victims posted a rap video online last month that angered some local gang members, and the gang members were instructed to shoot the victim. Documents say the victim was "greenlit" and supposed to be shot on sight.

Police say that the victim told them he went to Juneteenth to get something to eat and was only there for a few minutes when three men came up to him and tried to steal his gold and diamond necklace. Police say a fight broke out and the victim ran away, but they say Darmontre Peters pulled out a gun and opened fire, shooting the victim six times and shooting six innocent bystanders.

What led police to Darmontre Peters?

"We had his name fairly early in the investigation. The problem was we just didn't have enough evidence to arrest until yesterday, it all came together," said Watkins.

Police say they got tips from people, including the victims, that the shooter went by the name "KOD." Police say they found a Facebook page using that name that was tied to Darmontre Peters. Police say there was a picture of Darmontre Peters on the page with a gun in his waistband.

The second shooting:

Investigators say there was a second shooting about 90 yards away initial shooting, where they say Timetrious Moore opened fire and killed Isaiah Knight.

"That suspect basically heard the shooting that was going on north of him and pulled out his own gun and started firing and unfortunately, Isaiah Knight was just in the wrong space at the wrong moment," said Watkins.

"This was beyond stupid."

Tulsa Police Chief Dennis Larsen and Mayor Monroe Nichols held a news conference just days after the shooting and promised answers and justice for the victims. They called the shootings senseless.

Lieutenant Watkins says it's maddening to see this kind of senseless violence over nothing.

"This was a Juneteenth celebration, on Greenwood, in front of the Vernon AME Church. If you have a sense of history for this town, that in and of itself means that this was just, this was beyond stupid," said Watkins.

Police say the victim who made the rap video was attacked a few days before the shooting, too. He's now paralyzed from the waist down after being shot six times.