Charles Lomax said he will never forget his dear, friend Peggy Gaytan.
“Peggy was a beautiful person. We were just like brothers and sisters. I stayed at her house and played with her granddaughter and everything,” said Lomax.
Lomax still remembers where he was that fateful, day in 2012 when police said a gunman took her life.
“I was at home that day, but I had just left from here. That was on a Thursday night. That’s what I was hired to do was to get her off the night shift so she could be a day manager here and I was going to take her place,” said Lomax.
Lomax moved to Oklahoma from Texas to work with Peggy at the Shell Station near 36 th and Harvard.
He arrived around 5:00 p.m. and put in his application and was told he was hired and could start the next evening.
“She got killed that Thursday night and you see if I would have been back here that Wednesday night, she wouldn’t have been here, I would have been here instead of her,” said Lomax.
It’s a guilt that he said he still carries to this day.