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Imprisoned mom of accused Good Friday shooter gives jailhouse interview
Both the mother and defense attorney of Good Friday shooting suspect Jake England appeared on CNN's morning show "Starting Point" with Soledad O'Brien, to answer questions surrounding the rampage that left three people dead and two others wounded on the city's north side two weeks ago. Theresa Alexander, who currently ...
Not guilty plea for Good Friday shooting suspects a procedural move
Police say Jake England and Alvin Watts confessed to the Good Friday shooting spree that left three people dead and two people wounded in north Tulsa. Yet the judge has entered "not guilty" pleas on their behalf. It has left some scratching their heads, wondering about what appears to be ...
Not guilty pleas entered for England and Watts in murders on Good Friday
Special Judge Bill Hiddle entered the pleas on behalf of both Jacob England and Alvin Watts. The two appeared for arraignment via closed circuit television Monday morning. Dressed in black and white striped jail uniforms, neither of the accused spoke as the charges of murder, shooting with intent to kill and ...
Jackson lauds Tulsa's response to Good Friday shootings, calls for feds to investigate
Rev. Jesse Jackson rallied support for the victims and families affected by the Good Friday shootings in north Tulsa Saturday evening during a nearly three-hour event held at a historic church. A standing-room only crowd, estimated at well over a thousand people, packed the First Baptist Church North Tulsa, 1414 ...
Two days, two funerals for Good Friday shooting victims in Tulsa
Once again Saturday, family members, friends, community leaders and well-wishers gathered to mourn the loss of a Tulsan gunned down in a series of seemingly random shootings, but also to express hope for a more peaceful city. Dannaer Fields, 49, who went by the name Donna, was remembered fondly by a ...
Good Friday shooting suspect England speaks in jailhouse interview
One of the suspects in the Good Friday shooting spree that killed three people in north Tulsa has spoken out in a jailhouse interview videotaped by his new defense attorney. Before Jake England has even been arraigned on several counts of murder, shooting with intent to kill, and malicious harrassment, ...
Sharpton cancels Tulsa trip to talk about Good Friday shootings
The Rev. Al Sharpton has announced he will not come to Tulsa after all, now that hate crime charges have been filed against the defendants in the Good Friday shooting spree. He had planned to speak at a public meeting on Sunday at a north Tulsa church. In information obtained ...
Jackson: Shootings were 'murderous rampage of revenge and hate'
Rev. Jesse Jackson called the Good Friday shootings in north Tulsa a "murderous rampage of revenge and hate," saying it's "threatening when people are in their own neighborhoods attending their business and they are targeted and killed randomly. That's terrorism; we must all resist that." Jackson was at Crown Hill ...
Murder, hate crime charges filed against Good Friday shooters
Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris filed ten charges against each of the suspects in the Good Friday shootings in north Tulsa. Both 19-year-old Jake England and 31-year-old Alvin Watts were charged with three county of first-degree murder, two counts of shooting with intent to kill, and five counts of ...
Local expert weighs in on Tulsa's level of racism
Tulsa has become a watchword in the ongoing debate over race relations in this country, due in no small part to a series of murders on Good Friday morning which many see as racially motivated. Jacob England and Alvin Watts stand accused of gunning down five black people in a ...
Fear of crime triggers gun sales growth
A series of violent and highly-publicized crimes in Tulsa may be prompting a surge in gun sales according to one area gun retailer. David Stone runs Dong's Guns, Ammo and Reloading: “Several people have come in and said they felt like they had to get protection for their family. I ...
Services for one of three shooting victims to be held at same funeral home where his body was found
Funeral services have been set for the victims of Friday morning’s spree shooting in north Tulsa. Services for one of the victims, 31-year-old William Allen, will be held at the same funeral home where his body was found early Friday morning. William Terrell Allen was shot to death early Easter ...
Hate crime in Oklahoma: A misdemeanor
There have been repeated calls from leaders of Tulsa's black community to treat the Good Friday shooting spree that left three people dead and two people wounded as a hate crime. Tulsa City Councilor Jack Henderson has said he has no doubt it was a hate crime: “You have an ...
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are coming to Tulsa this weekend, one week after racially charged murders
KRMG has confirmed Reverend Jesse Jackson is coming to Tulsa with a public event set for Saturday. Jackson is set to speak at a 6pm rally at the First Baptist Church North Tulsa at 1414 North Greenwood Avenue. KRMG has learned Jackson is coming at the request of Oklahoma Legislative ...
Protestors claim north Tulsa shooters shouldn't have been allowed bail
About a dozen people gathered just past 10:00 a.m. on the plaza near the Tulsa County Courthouse to protest the bond applied to the Jake England and Alvin Watts Good Friday shootings. England and Watts shot five people, killing three. All the victims were black while both Watts and England ...
Tulsa residents want death penalty in shootings
By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS The Associated Press TULSA, Okla. — Within hours of shootings that terrified Tulsa's north side and left three people dead, leaders of the predominantly black community declared the spree a hate crime and warned of a possible vigilante response. Quick arrests relieved many residents and ended talk ...
Racial identity is rarely as simple as looking at a mugshot
Since the shooting spree Friday morning in Tulsa and the arrest of murder suspects Jake England and Alvin Watts early Sunday morning, there's been a raging debate about the role of race in this crime. It has been widely reported, including on KRMG, that the 5 victims of last Friday ...
$9-million? Why not 'no bond' for accused shooters?
The high bond ($9.16 million) set on each of the accused Good Friday shooters is no surprise to prominent Tulsa defense attorney Jack Zannerhaft. "It's going to be an amount that's essetially equivalent to no bond," says Zannerhaft. "Nobody in the law enforcement community has the sense that they need to ...
Good Friday shooting survivors speak out
Both survivors of the Good Friday shootings in north Tulsa spoke with KRMG Monday evening at a Tulsa hospital. Despite reports to the contrary attributed to police, David Hall, 46, remains hospitalized and tells KRMG he may be there for a while yet. When asked about the men who shot ...
Police: Suspects in north Tulsa shooting spree confess to crimes
Police documents show the two shooters in the deadly spree on Friday have confessed to the crimes. The document is the arrest and booking report and we have confirmed with Tulsa Police Officer Jason Willingham that those documents show Alvin Watts, 32 years old, confessed to shooting two people and ...
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