FOX23 hears from relative of man and 10-year-old found dead after possible murder-suicide

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Broken Arrow Police identified the man and 10-year-old boy who were found dead after a possible murder-suicide as father and son, and confirmed the man is also the father of a missing woman.

FOX23 told you Broken Arrow Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide after officers responded to a home near West Roanoke Street and South Ash Avenue to serve a warrant in the case of 20-year-old Alyssa Shippy, who's been missing since November 2024, on Wednesday.

Broken Arrow Police confirmed Shippy is the granddaughter of Kenneth Carpenter and Diane Carpenter, who were involved in a murder-suicide in Broken Arrow in 2023. 

Police said once on scene, officers found a man with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a boy and a dog all dead.

Broken Arrow Police identified the man as 58-year-old Rodney Shippy.

Police identified the boy as his 10-year-old son, who other family members identified as Logan.

The identity of the woman who was found dead in the home will not be released until the medical examiner's report is done, Broken Arrow Police said.

Police confirmed that Alyssa Shippy is Rodney Shippy's daughter.

FOX23 spoke with Patti Williams, Shippy family relative, on Thursday.

She said Alyssa lived with her for about a year and a half.

"She moved out around the end of the year last year," Williams said. "Whenever she moved out, she kind of vanished. She completely just took me off Facebook, she wasn't responding and I tried to contact her and you know just kept going to voicemail."

On Monday, family members discovered a video that Logan had posted on YouTube about two months prior.

"What alarmed us is Logan had posted a YouTube video basically just walking through the entire house, which the house looks completely different from the last time we've seen it," Williams said. "There was water jugs with rainwater and there was no running water trash everywhere in the house beer can stacked up.

After seeing the condition of the home, Williams said she called Rodney and talked to him briefly on Monday, but he avoided most of her questions about Alyssa who wasn't seen in the video.

"I contacted Rodney and I just, you know, he was very vague," she said. "I said, 'Hey is everybody OK?' and he said, 'Why do you ask?' I said, 'Is Alyssa OK?' He said why do you ask?' and I said, 'I'm just hearing all kinds of crazy stories that she's passed. He says, 'Where did you hear that from?' and then I said, 'Well I love you and I really hope you can talk to me, is she OK?' and he never responded back and that was on Monday."

Williams said she reported Alyssa as missing and asked authorities to do a welfare check on Logan.

"I asked him can you please get a warrant because there's a child in there?" she said. "I don't know if he's in danger, we don't know anything, and so they went out there a couple more times and kept knocking," she said. "Then finally yesterday evening about maybe four o'clock they went in with a warrant and that's when they found the deceased the three bodies deceased."

Williams said when she posted about Alyssa being missing, neighbors said Rodney told them his daughter died in March.

"I guess somebody ran across the post that Rodney had posted a while ago saying that Alyssa had passed," she said. "And that she supposedly passed in March, and so we told the detectives everything we knew. They did some investigating and confirmed that she was not registered as being deceased. She was not registered being hurt or any hospital."

"Some neighbors and people started coming out of the woodwork, just messaging me and my cousin Lindsay, and they were messaging saying, 'Yeah, you know we thought Alyssa had passed away of cancer,' and then somebody else said that she was in a car accident and lost her leg," Williams added. "Just all these crazy stories."

Williams said Rodney's neighbors had apparently been giving him money because they thought Alyssa had cancer.

"Apparently his neighbors have been giving him money because they thought Alyssa had cancer," she said. "They bought them food, they bought Logan food."

She said the neighbors also contacted CPS a couple months ago because they said they saw Logan running out around the neighborhood by himself.

"But they said nobody ever showed and they didn't know how to contact his family," Williams said.

Williams is shocked by the discovery of Rodney, Logan and an unidentified woman believed to be Alyssa dead in the home on Wednesday.

"I mean, I don't know what happened behind closed doors but he loved those kids," she said. "He loved them more than life, you know."

She told FOX23 about Logan and Alyssa.

"Logan was just such a bright light," she said. "The neighbors, everybody in the neighborhood knew him because whenever he would see neighbors walking their dogs he would run outside and walk with them."

"It just breaks my heart because Alyssa had a whole life to live," Williams said. "She had opportunity of you know, turning 21 and being an adult and getting married and having children, and that was all robbed from her."

Broken Arrow Police said part of their investigation is having the medical examiner determine how and when the woman who family members believe to be Alyssa died in the home.