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Updated: 6:20 p.m. Friday, April 6, 2012 | Posted: 6:20 p.m. Friday, April 6, 2012
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By Don Bishop, Rick Couri, Russell Mills , Staff and Staff
Tulsa, Okla. —
Update
Police are increasing their presence in north Tulsa after an apparent shooting spree Friday morning.
Police have labeled the overnight violence as 'unprecedented' in Tulsa after 5 people were shot and three of those victims died.
Here are the names of the three shooting victims killed in what investigators call an "unprecedented" shooting spree overnight.
Det. Sgt. Dave walker identifies the dead as:
He says police now believe they may be looking for a white male in a white pickup.
All of the victims were on foot in the early morning hours.
Sgt. Walker says, "Asking the public to be aware of their safety when they're out and about. Obviously these crimes happened early in the morning from midnight to three a.m. So, if you're out and about at those times and you're out on the street, you shouldn't stop for anybody anyway, especially a car that pulls up."
Homicide detectives say they have very little forensic information to go on right now.
So, they're need help from the public.
Sgt. Walker says, "What we need from the public is anybody that saw anything unusual in those neighborhoods around those times to give us a call, or if you know who the suspect is that would be the best thing. Go ahead and break down and do the right thing."
Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide tip line 918-798-8477.
Tulsa Police Sergeant Dave Walker tells KRMG that right now authorities don't have a link between the victims, motive, suspect or clues as to why these individuals were shot.
"Right now we have nothing but the bodies and the locations," says Walker.
If you have information about the series of shootings, you are asked to call Crimestoppers at 918-596-COPS.
UPDATE
Tulsa Police have found a third person dead after Friday's shooting spree.
The latest body was found in the parking lot of a funeral home near 36th street north and Peoria.
Tulsa Police provide additional details:
The Tulsa Police Department received a call at 0103 hours on 04-06-2012 to 1045 E 51 PN in regards to a B/F early 40's down in the yard. EMSA transports her to St. Johns where she dies of a gun shot wound.
At 0106 hours on 04-06-2012 we receive a call to 1390 E 51 PN in regards to two people shot in the yard. There are two B/M's shot and transported to St. Johns and St. Francis. Both have sustained non life threatening gun shot wounds.
At 0150 hours we receive a call to 300 W 63 SN in regards to a B/M in the street. This B/M is transported to Hillcrest Hospital where he dies from a gun shot wound.
At this time the Homicide Detectives are investigating. We have no solid leads at this time and we do not know if the events are connected.
We do not know the B/F identity. The other names are not being released at this time. If anyone has information on these shootings or the identity of the B/F please call Crime Stoppers 918 596 2877, The Homicide Tip Line at 918 798 8477 or email homicide@cityoftulsa.org
Five people were the victims of drive-by shootings early on Good Friday morning and three are dead.
Tulsa Police Corporal Dan Miller said the shootings began near 51st Place North and North Peoria "appear to be completely random, it doesn't look like they know each other, but there's that off-chance that these two could...know each other."
Miller says the first to die was a woman shot near 51 place north just west of Peoria.
Miller said the wound was so small, it took several minutes to find it.
“We looked all over and finally had to cut her shirt off to find a really small would in her upper left chest,” he told KRMG at the scene.
The woman was alive when EMSA and police arrived, but died later at a local hospital.
Witnesses told Miller that the first shooting happened about 1:05 a.m., followed about three minutes later by another report of a shooting about three blocks away.
“Just seconds after we were here on the first shooting we got the call that two men had been shot just across Peoria,” Miller added.
Miller said both of those victims were hospitalized in critical condition, but are expected to survive.
Click here to listen to our interview with Miller from the scene.
"We don't have a description of the shooter yet, but it appears just to be one person involved driving the vehicle. They pulled up to these people and shot them," Miller said.
Then an hour or so later, two men found their brother laying in his front yard.
They called police and EMSA and again Miller said, they had a hard time finding a wound “we thought it was possibly a cardiac arrest,” he said.
Once at the hospital, another small gunshot wound was found and the man died there.
Miller said the only help from witness reports was a meager description of the vehicle.
“It looks like it was a light gray Chevy, either Tahoe or pickup truck, we're getting two different ideas, fleeing the scene with a tail pipe dragging."
No one has been arrested.
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