Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma’s racial divide bedevils plan to honor MLK
This city, where a history of racial tension was inflamed by the Good Friday shootings of five black people, plans to name a street in honor of civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King but only the section that passes through a predominantly black part of a city. The challenges in winning approval for the [...]
Tulsa Shooting Could Be a Hate Crime; Hate Groups Are on the Rise
Over the weekend, the two men arrested in connection with a shooting rampage targeted at African-Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma, confessed to firing the fatal shots that killed three and wounded two others. Officials continue to investigate whether the crimes committed by Jack England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were racially motivated, but with evidence showing [...]
Tulsa police say revenge one motive in shootings
Police say a shooting spree that spread fear in Tulsa’s black community and left three people dead may have been partly motivated by an Oklahoma man’s desire to avenge his father’s shooting by a black man. Police spokesman Jason Willingham told The Associated Press on Sunday that investigators are still considering many possible motives, but [...]
Police say 2 suspects were arrested before dawn in Okla. Shootings, to be charged with murder
Police say two male suspects have been arrested near Tulsa and will be charged with murder in the wake of the Oklahoma shootings on Friday. Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham says the two men were taken into custody early Sunday just north of Tulsa and they will face three counts of first-degree murder and two [...]
Tulsa’s black community unnerved after police link shootings that killed 3, wounded 2
Tulsa’s black community was on edge Saturday after police said the same attacker or attackers were behind a series of shootings a day earlier that left three people dead and two more critically wounded. Police are still waiting for the results of forensic tests, but investigators think the early Friday morning shootings are linked because [...]
