Angel Beach was 25 years old when she was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Laundry Station laundromat at 6302 South Peoria Avenue in Tulsa on October 19, 2020. She died from her injuries the next day, and more than five years later, no one has been arrested. Now the FBI is asking the public to help close the case, backed by a reward of up to $25,000.
According to FBI investigative records, Beach was involved in a verbal argument with a friend when an unknown man approached under the premise of defusing the dispute, then drew a gun, shot her, and fled on foot to the northwest. Investigators describe the shooter as a tall, skinny, light-skinned Black male, and they believe he was a stranger to Beach. In a post this week, FBI Oklahoma City called for the public’s help solving the murder and obtaining justice for her family and friends.
Beach was an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, according to Justice for Native People, a detail that matters legally as well as personally. The shooting happened within the historical boundaries of the Muscogee Creek Reservation, which is why the case falls under federal rather than state jurisdiction.
Why the FBI, Not Tulsa Police, Is Leading the Case
That jurisdiction traces back to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation was never disestablished by Congress, per the U.S. Department of Justice. The decision fundamentally altered criminal jurisdiction across eastern Oklahoma, stripping state authorities of the power to prosecute major crimes involving tribal citizens on reservation land…