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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
A group of about 20 people said they wanted the Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 33, to be held without bond. The two were arrested in connection to a string of shootings early Friday that left three people dead and two injured. Their bonds were...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
The Oklahoma Senate passed a measure Tuesday commending law enforcement officers and others in the wake of Friday's shootings that left three people dead and two injured in Tulsa. "The Oklahoma Legislature praises the high professionalism and...
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The Herald Times
| 1 year ago
Syria defies cease-fire plan Syrian troops defied a U.N.-brokered cease-fire plan Tuesday, launching fresh attacks on rebellious areas, but special envoy Kofi Annan said there was still time to salvage a truce that he described as the only chance for...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 10, 2012 The suspects involved in the Tulsa mass shootings that left three people dead and four injured confessed, it was reported on Tuesday. Jake England, 19, confessed to shooting three people, and Alvin Watts, 32, confessed to shooting two,...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 10, 2012 At a press conference in Tulsa, Okla., following the targeted shootings of five African-Americans last week, the optics were as important as the substance of the news...The united front, seen live by a national television audience,...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Okla. (AP) — 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...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Okla. (AP) — The brother of a suspect in the weekend shooting spree that terrorized Tulsa's black community says he called the night of his arrest, desperately looking for an alibi.
Thirty-three-year-old Alvin Watts was arrested early...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Jake England told investigators he shot three of the five victims, while Alvin Watts told police he shot the other two, according to the incident report provided by police. Authorities accuse the pair of gunning down apparent strangers at four...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
The caller said 19-year-old Jake England was involved in Friday morning's shootings, which left three people dead and two seriously wounded, as The Associated Press writes . Then, "over the course of [Saturday], police received dozens of tips about...
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The Washington Times
| 1 year ago
Two Oklahoma men suspected in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa's black community appeared in court Monday and had bond set at more than $9 million each. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts , 32, appeared via closed-...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles England's arrest report says he drove during the shootings and led police to the weapon. Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham told The Times that the gun and a truck were seized in connection with the shootings. The shootings early Friday...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Two suspects jailed in the deadly Tulsa, Okla., shooting spree that targeted black men confessed, police documents showed Monday. Radio reported city police officer Jason Willingham confirmed the arrest and booking report show Alvin Watts confessed...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
A judge set bail at $9.1-mllion each on Monday morning for two men accused in a shooting spree in which three people were killed and two others wounded...England, 19, were not brought into the courtroom for the brief hearing at Tulsa County District...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Okla. Police documents filed in court say the two suspects arrested in a shooting spree that terrorized the black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have both confessed. An affidavit filed Monday says 19-year-old Jake England confessed to shooting three...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Okla. (AP) — The explanation for a shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's black neighborhood and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago.
Carl England, whose son is accused in the weekend...
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 1 year ago
Police documents filed in court say the two suspects arrested in a shooting spree that terrorized Tulsa's black community have both confessed. An affidavit filed Monday says 19-year-old Jake England confessed to shooting three people and 32-year-old...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
Two white men suspected of killing three blacks and wounding two others in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were ordered held on bail of more than $9 million each in their first court appearance on Monday morning, prosecutors said. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts,...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
The Tulsa County District Attorney's office ruled the April 5, 2010, shooting death of Carl England justifiable homicide and declined to file homicide charges against Pernell Demond Jefferson, said Susan Witt with the district attorney's office in a...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 9, 2012 The two men who were arrested early on Sunday in connection with a shooting spree that left three dead in Tulsa made their first court appearances on Monday, it was reported...Alvin Watts, 32, and Jake England, 19, are being held on...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
It's hard not to go off between that and [England's fiancee] Sheran.'" CNN didn't bleep or censor Candiotti's words at all, but the accompanying graphic showed a blurred out Facebook post from England. Must Read Sponsorship Link Like us on Facebook...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
The NBC network has apologized after it was revealed that they doctored a 911 call made by George Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin that some say depicts him as racist...Three victims died from their wounds in what some feel were racially-...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Tulsa World Tulsa police have identified the two men who survived a series of shootings in north Tulsa early Friday. David Hall, 46, and Deon Tucker, 44, were found with gunshot wounds in a yard in the 1300 block of East 51st Place North at 1:06 a.m.,...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Shooting suspects Alvin Watts and Jake England lived in this home in Turley, Oklahoma. Photograph: Joey Johnson/AP Two men accused of carrying out a killing spree that rattled Oklahoma 's black community over the weekend have made their first court...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Okla. (AP) — Two Oklahoma men suspected in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa's African-American community appeared in court Monday and had bond set at more than $9 million each.
Jake England, 19, and...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
49 Two Oklahoma men accused in a rampage that left three people dead have been charged with murder. Alvin Watts and Jake England appeared via closed-circuit television from jail for their first court appearance on Monday in the city of Tulsa in the...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Police held the suspects, Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, at about 2:00 a.m. from the same place where the incident took place, after the investigators received an anonymous tip. FBI and local investigators were hunting for the...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
On Thursday, a day before the shootings, England took to his Facebook page to vent his anger about the man who shot him dead. When quoting England's Facebook page in her news report on Sunday for CNN Newsroom, Susan Candiotti repeated the profanity...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Alvin Watts and Jake England, the two men suspected of the Tulsa, Okla., shooting are in custody and will be brought before the court on Monday on suspicion of first-degree murder. Alvin Lee Watts, 32, (top) and Jacob Carl England, 19, are...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
tool goes here Two men were arrested Sunday in connection with the shootings of five black residents in Tulsa, Okla., and investigators were probing their backgrounds and Facebook pages to try to determine whether the attacks were racially motivated.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Tulsa, Okla., police say they are reviewing racial slurs one of two white men suspected of killing three blacks and wounding of two others posted to Facebook. Jacob England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, each face three counts of first-degree murder and...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Members of a joint task force formed to investigate a series of fatal shootings Friday credited Tulsa residents with tipping police off to the men who've been arrested for their alleged involvement in the crimes. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32,...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Margaret Love, member of North Peoria Church of Christ, member of a team that worked to find and assist the families of the shooting victims "This should not be a black issue or a white issue. Kavin Ross, during a memorial service at North Peoria...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Tulsa police are called to 1000 block East 51st Place North where 49-year-old Dannaer Fields is found in a yard with gunshot wounds...Officers find two surviving shooting victims in 1300 block East 51st Place North...William Allen, 31, is found dead...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 9, 2012 Police in Tulsa, Okla., say it is much too early in their investigation to describe the murder of three black residents and the wounding of two others as a hate crime. Two men were arrested early Sunday morning and are expected to face...
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CNN Blog
| 1 year ago
Two white men accused in a spate of shootings in predominantly black neighborhoods of Tulsa, Oklahoma, will make their first court appearance Monday, as authorities work to determine whether the violence that left three people dead was racially...
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Newsbusters
| 1 year ago
For the second time in roughly two weeks a CNN employee has said "f--king n--ger" on the air. All right, disturbing new developments surfacing in just the last few hours concerning the shooting spree in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Two men are now under arrest...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 1 year ago
England, 19, posted a message on his Facebook page, expressing grief -- and anger -- over the second anniversary of his father's death. Mr. England's father, Carl, was shot on April 5, 2010, at an apartment complex here, and the man who was a person...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
April 8, 2012 Two suspects were arrested early on Sunday in connection with the string of shootings in Tusla, Okla., that left three people dead and two wounded, it was reported. Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were arrested just two days...
