Suspect arrested in deadly dog attack

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa Police have a person in custody after his three pit bulls attacked and killed a man in October.

35-year-old Benjamin Spence was booked into Tulsa County Jail on Thursday, facing charges of second-degree murder after his dogs mauled a man to death.

Police have been actively searching for Spence for over three weeks after issuing a warrant on Nov. 10.

Spence was reportedly located by police at a home near East 21st Street and South 129th East Ave on Thursday

On October 10th, a woman named Champaign Walker told police her ex-boyfriend, 26-year-old Curtis Wickham came to her home near West Admiral Blvd. and N. 49th West Ave. looking for his cellphone.

Walker told police she stayed in bed, and her boyfriend, Spence, answered the door.

Walker says a fight broke out, and another witness said she saw Spence point towards Wickham before Spence’s three pit bulls attacked and mauled him.

Walker says she remembers Wickham begging for Spence to get his dogs, but Spence did not react.

Spence is also being charged with assault with a deadly weapon, because according to the affidavit, “He tried to drop a television set on the head of Curtis Wickham as he languished on the ground from mortal wounds.”

Police say a neighbor tried to intervene by striking the dogs with a wooden plank, but they wouldn’t stop. Another neighbor fired a shot into the air, and the police were called.

Walker said she demanded Spence drag Wickham into the house and separate him from the dogs, police found Wickham in critical condition in the living room.

He died later of his injuries.

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