Grieving woman planning funeral instead of wedding after fiancé shot and killed at OKC apartment
By Meghan Mosley
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — A woman is grieving the loss of her fiancé after he was shot and killed earlier this month at a southwest Oklahoma City apartment complex.
Police said Brentley Joseph Mueller, 42, was shot on Feb. 6 at an apartment complex on South Pennsylvania Avenue near Southwest 36th Street. He was taken to an area hospital, where he later died.
“He helped me do everything. He was my best friend, my partner, my soul mate, and we just did everything together,” Mueller’s fiancé, Thelisa Sparks, said. “I just remember holding him in my arms, crying and telling him, ‘You gotta breathe. Look at me.’ And he locked eyes with me and he’s trying to take his last breath, and it was so freaking hard.”
The two were set to get married in April after years together through ups and downs. Sparks told KOCO 5 that the last six months marked a new chapter.
“He got a job. He really was giving his all to change his life around, and I think that’s the hardest part. You change your life around, and then your life is just taken out of nowhere,” she said.
Instead of planning a wedding, Sparks is planning Mueller’s funeral.
“He helped me do everything. He was my best friend, my partner, my soul mate. And we just did everything together,” she said.
With all their money going toward the wedding, Sparks finds herself in a bind and created a GoFundMe to help pay for funeral expenses. Anyone who would like to donate can do so here.
“I just want him to come home, and I know he’s not. I know he’s not gonna come home,” Sparks said.
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