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The 2021 Muskogee shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States, on February 2, 2021, when a gunman opened fire at a house. [2] The shooter killed six people—a man and five children—and a woman was seriously injured. Law enforcement responded to the residence at 1:30 a.m. CST.
Jun. 17—A Muskogee man charged with first-degree murder pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced Thursday. Benrick Rickey Carter Jr. pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact and ...
On the same day as the final two murders, he was arrested for first-degree rape in Muskogee County, which he had been wanted for since late November. [11] Investigators quickly connected him to the murders, and he was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree arson, and one count of assault and battery with a ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976.. The total amounts to 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection. [1] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A former undersheriff in southeast Oklahoma was sentenced Thursday to nearly two years in prison for repeatedly striking a handcuffed arrestee in 2017, federal prosecutors ...
Sep. 7—Muskogee police are investigating two early Thursday morning shooting deaths separately and do not know whether the homicides are related. Neither victim's identity has been released. No ...
In 1915, Oklahoma adopted electrocution as its main form of capital punishment, with a designated execution chamber being added to the state penitentiary in McAlester. [2] From that year to 1972, 83 prisoners (all male) were executed in the state penitentiary. 82 were electrocuted; one of the prisoners, sentenced to death by the federal ...
Mar. 27—A 19-year-old man linked to a local gang received a 2 1/2 -year prison sentence Wednesday for a drive-by shooting that left a 20-year-old man wounded last spring at Underhill Park. As ...