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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size The two men who were suspected of a shooting spree in Tulsa, Okla., are facing murder and hate crime charges in a District Court . Jacob England, 19 and Alvin Watts, 33, have been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, two counts...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Al Sharpton, center, accompanied by Trayvon Martin's parents Tracy Martin, left, and Sybrina Fulton gestures during a news conference at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, Wednesday...Al Sharpton says now that first-degree murder and...
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Leader Post Online
| 1 year ago
Prosecutors brought murder and hate-crime charges on Friday against two white men arrested in the shootings of four black men and a black woman, three of them fatally, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a week ago. Black lawmakers in Oklahoma and civil rights...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prosecutors filed murder and hate crime charges Friday against two men arrested in an Easter weekend shooting spree that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa's black community.
Jake England, 19, and his...
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Kansas City Star
| 1 year ago
TULSA, Okla. Oklahoma prosecutors have filed murder and hate crime charges against two men arrested in an Easter weekend shooting spree that left three people dead and terrorized the city's black community.Prosecutors said Friday that 19-year-old...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Courtesy The two men accused of shooting three people to death and injuring two last week were formally charged Friday with the deaths and with violating Oklahoma's hate crime statute. Jacob Lee England, 19, and Alvin Lee Watts, 33, were charged with...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
Filing a hate crime charge in the Good Friday shootings would be secondary in consequences to a murder charge, but it might give the public and victims a sense of justice, a local law professor said. Prosecutors are expected to file charges before...
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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
The Tulsa City Council unanimously approved a resolution Thursday offering sympathy and support to the bereaved families of the Good Friday shooting spree victims. "I wanted the council to have means by which we in a united fashion could express our...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Jesse Jackson wants a federal investigation of the recent shootings in Tulsa, Okla., saying local officials are reluctant to call it a hate crime. Jackson, who plans to visit the city this weekend, said there is a pattern of blacks being attacked in...
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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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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 11, 2012 In Tulsa, Okla., the families of the three victims killed during a shooting rampage on Good Friday are planning funerals. Police says William Allen, 31, Bobby Clark, 54, and Donna Fields, 49, were shot in a predominantly black...
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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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Tulsa World
| 1 year ago
When he didn't show up, Donnie Clark headed back to their house near 63rd Street North and Denver Avenue to find out what was taking his brother so long. That's when he saw the body in the street. "At first, I didn't think it was him," Donnie Clark...
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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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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
April 10, 2012 Three people were killed in last week's shootings in Tulsa, Okla.: Dannaer Fields, 49; William Allen, 31; and Bobby Clark, 54...All of them were shot apparently at random in the predominantly black neighborhood of Northgate in northern...
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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...
