Tulsa - An innocent bystander in a wheelchair was shot and killed on a Tulsa street Wednesday.

The search is on for the person or persons responsible.

Gunfire erupts near the intersection of Apache and Cincinnati in north Tulsa.

Two men are shot while trying to cross the street. One died a short time later.

54-year old Norris Walton was gunned down for no apparent reason.

By all accounts he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Family and friends are struggling to cope with his sudden death.

“We just called him pudding. He was pudding to us. “

Friends, family, and neighbors are mourning the loss of Norris Walton, a man known simply as puddin.

“He was such a good guy and very very friendly everybody loves him. This will be really, really hard.”

Walton,confined to a wheelchair used this ramp everyday. But he will never come home again.

“I'm at the house and I heard the shooting.”

Witnesses report several rounds of gunfire. One man is hit and wounded.

But Norris puddin Walton would not be so lucky.

“Maybe 4 five shots and he was hit in his wheelchair.” said Capt Karen Tipler

Walton was rushed to a Tulsa hospital where he later died. An innocent bystander, confined to a wheelchair, simply trying to cross the street.

“He loved everybody friendly guy if you got it he got it.”

Those who knew him best are still trying to cope. Friend Prentice Morris wonders why.

“Could have happened to anybody could have happened to me wrong place wrong time.”

Tulsa Police describe the suspects as two black males driving a red Ford SUV with 2 white females riding in back.

Anyone with information should call crime stoppers.

That number is 596-COPS.

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