OK Man Kill-Shots Cancer-Surviving Granny While "Testing Out" New Christmas Glock| Crime Alert 6AM 01.08.2026
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This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace. An Oklahoma woman holding a child sitting on her front porch, fatally shot on Christmas by a neighbor whose target practicing in his backyard blocks away. Cody Wayne Adams trying out a new gun he purchased as a Christmas gift. Authorities allege a stray bullet leaves Adams' yard, strikes Sandra Phelps in her right arm while she's holding the child with her left arm. Adams, 33, arrested on suspicion, first-degree manslaughter. A real Christmas miracle, the baby not hit.
What happened during the Christmas shooting incident involving a grandmother?
Jennifer Gould has the details.
Nancy Sandra Phelps, a five-time cancer survivor who spent years cheating death, was taken out by a single Christmas bullet while cradling that infant grandchild on a holiday afternoon. Sandy, or Nanny as she was known... was relaxing on a covered porch around 3.15 p.m. in the Meridian area about 90 miles southwest of Oklahoma City when the crack of gunfire began echoing from the north. Witnesses say Sandra remained eerily calm, even joking with her family as the shots rang out saying, quote, someone got a new gun for Christmas, end quote. Unaware that the weapon was currently being aimed, in her direction. Moments later, the grandmother let out a simple heartbreaking, ouch, and collapsed into the love seat.
First responders found a scene of absolute horror. Sandra had been struck by a high caliber round that tore through her upper right arm and steep downward angles before burying itself deep into her chest. She was pronounced dead on the spot, still clutching that infant she'd been protecting just minutes prior. One of her granddaughters spoke to ABC5 News.
She was a loving woman. She loved and cared for everybody.
The trail of blood led deputies nearly a third of a mile away to the backyard of 33-year-old Cody Adams. He admitted to cops he got a Glock .45 caliber handgun for Christmas and was just testing it out by taking pot shots at a Red Bull can that was on the ground. Investigators found a graveyard of spent casings on Adams' deck and noted a terrifying fact. From his shooting direction, the emergency lights flashing at Sandra's home were visible in a direct, unobstructed line of fire. Adams reportedly broke down in tears, muttering, I'm sorry, after a deputy told him his target practice had claimed a life. With no backstop to catch the heavy .45 caliber slugs, the bullets were just free to whistle through the residential neighborhood.
Adams is now charged with first-degree manslaughter for his conscious disregard for human life. Currently out on bond, he is slated to face the music at a preliminary hearing on February 26th. For the latest crime and justice news, follow Crime Stories with Nancy Grace on your favorite podcast app. You can also watch Crime Stories on Fox 1 and YouTube and follow the Crime Alert hourly update wherever you listen to podcasts. Nancy.
Thanks, Jennifer.
Who is Cody Wayne Adams and what charges is he facing?
More crime and justice news after this.
A cold-blooded killer allegedly turned a New Year's Eve reunion into a slaughter, stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death before playing the role of a worried lover to buy himself enough time to flee the continent. Nikita Godeshala, a 27-year-old rising star data analyst, was found brutally murdered inside the Columbia apartment of Arjun Sharma, 26, just hours after the suspect called police to report her missing in a diabolical attempt to cover his tracks. Seth Hoffman with the Howard County Police spoke to Fox 5 DC.
her life was taken before it really even started. So it's certainly a tragic instance, especially by somebody she knew and had a relationship with.
The carnage unfolded shortly after 7 p.m. on December 31st at Sharma's residence in the 10,100 block of Twin Rivers Road. Detectives believe Sharma unleashed a savage knife attack, leaving the ambitious professional dead from multiple stab wounds. Two days later, in a move police call purely premeditated, Sharma walked into Howard County headquarters to file a bogus missing person report claiming he hadn't seen Nikita since the holiday.
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