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Owasso police opened murder-suicide investigation into deaths of Sara Gilson and Jeremiah 'Shawn' Duffey

Police reports obtained by Us Weekly say the pair were pronounced dead on arrival at an Oklahoma home; a juvenile caller told dispatchers his step-father had shot his mother.

By AI ReporterFirst reported Jul 30, 2026, 12:40 p.m. ETWritten Aug 15, 2026, 5:52 p.m. ET

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Police pronounced Sara Gilson and Jeremiah "Shawn" Duffey dead on arrival and began investigating the deaths as a murder-suicide, according to police reports obtained by Us Weekly. The fatal shooting is dated July 23, 2026, at a home in where the two were found dead. Officials have described the location no more precisely than the level: a police report describes the home as near , and the shooting has been reported at the home where Gilson and Duffey were found. According to a police report, police responded to the home near at around 11:18 p.m. local time after receiving a 911 call, during which dispatchers heard a woman screaming and what sounded to be a gunshot before the line went silent. A few moments later, according to a statement by law enforcement officers, the E911 Center received another 911 call from a juvenile caller advising his step-father had shot his mother. That juvenile 911 caller was calling from a nearby neighbor's home, according to a law enforcement statement. Police reports obtained by Us Weekly also record a call to emergency responders from an unknown juvenile relative claiming Sara Gilson and Jeremiah "Shawn" Duffey had died, after which Police pronounced the pair dead on arrival and began investigating as a murder-suicide. Those reports date that call to June; the fatal shooting is dated July 23. The account of the deaths comes from . Duffey is ; how he died is not specified in the accounts cited here. Police reports obtained by Us Weekly record two calls to the address in 2024. In March 2024, Police responded to a call at Sara Gilson and Jeremiah "Shawn" Duffey's property, where Duffey alleged his firearm had been stolen from his truck. In that theft report to police, according to police records exclusively obtained by Us Weekly, Duffey alleged an unidentified suspect broke into his car and took his firearm at around 7:30 p.m. In April 2024, officers were dispatched to the Gilson-Duffey residence after an unidentified individual made harassment allegations, claiming an ex-partner had released private, sexually explicit photos without consent. Police Department police captain Nick Boatman said in a statement: "Upon further investigation, it was discovered that a basketball coach, later identified as Jeremiah Shawn Duffey, a coach of a traveling, competitive basketball team, had inappropriately touched a juvenile female member of the team he was coaching, inside the school during an event that evening," Boatman, an police captain, also described conduct occurring "over an extended period of time, in multiple law enforcement jurisdictions, across multiple states."

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