Shawn Ellington, also known as Murder Nova, was born in 1977 in Merced, California. In 1982, he relocated to Sayre, Oklahoma, where he spent his formative years helping out in his father Richard’s auto body shop. Shawn moved to Oklahoma City in 2005. Shortly after that, he acquired a vehicle that would later be dubbed the Murder Nova. This car, a 1969 Nova painted in flat black, has undergone various modifications over the years. The OG Nova is still one of the fastest street-raced cars in the country and spends most of its time now on small tires.