Monday, April 9, 2012

Re: Two White Men Arrested For Randomly Shooting Five Black Folks While Walking, Three Dead in Tulsa

So if you are Hispanic you can shoot black people, but if you are white you cannot.

Clearly our country is far from racial equality.

Is that your message today Tammy?

On Monday, April 9, 2012, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> Two White Men Arrested For Randomly Shooting Five Black Folks While
> Walking, Three Dead
>
> Two arrested in north Tulsa shootings that claimed three lives
>
> The shootings were a day after 2-year anniversary of slaying of
> suspect's fatherBy ZACK STOYCOFF World Staff Writer
> Published: 4/8/2012  4:37 AM
> Last Modified: 4/8/2012  8:14 PM
>
>
> Tulsa police have arrested two white men who are accused of killing
> three black residents and injuring two others in a shooting spree that
> authorities deemed "unprecedented."
>
> Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, were arrested at 1:47 a.m.
> Sunday, about 48 hours after police began discovering gunshot victims
> in a three-mile area of north Tulsa.
>
> The pair were found together in a neighborhood near where the
> shootings occurred after police received several anonymous tips that
> England was the shooter, according to arrest reports.
>
> "It is way too early to call this a hate crime," Federal Bureau of
> Investigation agent James Finch said at a Sunday afternoon news
> conference. "We have yet to analyze all the information to understand
> the motivations in this case.
>
> "This is where the really tough work starts in the investigation. This
> is where we can't afford to make mistakes," he said.
>
> The FBI was called to assist with the case.
>
> Finch asked that people keep in mind the victims. "No family should be
> subjected to this," he said.
>
> "Hopefully … this (arrests) adds some degree of closure for the families.
>
> Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54 and William Allen, 31, were
> identified as those who died after three separate shootings Friday.
>
> Two other men were wounded in a fourth shooting but were expected to
> survive. They have not been identified.
>
> The arrests came less than 12 hours after authorities formed a task
> force called Operation Random Shooter, which consisted of 30
> investigators from the Tulsa Police Department, the Tulsa County
> Sheriff's Office, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI.
>
> At a press conference Saturday, Tulsa police Chief Chuck Jordan called
> the attacks vicious and cowardly and said his agency was going to do
> whatever it takes to apprehend anyone involved.
>
> "Our sympathy goes out to the families of the victims and we hope that
> our efforts can bring some resolution and closure to these heinous
> acts," police said in a news release Sunday.
>
> Community leaders in north Tulsa and a representative of the National
> Association for the Advancement of Colored People said Friday that it
> seemed as though the shootings were racially-motivated.
>
> Jordan said Saturday that there was no evidence for that, but that it
> was a logical explanation. Police did not address the motivation for
> the shootings early Sunday.
>
> A man who is identified on Jake England's Facebook page as his father,
> Carl England, was fatally shot April 5, 2010, at Comanche Park
> Apartments, 3608 N. Quaker Ave. Carl England's death was about a
> quarter-mile east of where Allen's body was found early Friday,
> according to the Tulsa World archives.
>
> The man arrested in Carl England's death, Pernell Demond Jefferson,
> was charged with pointing a firearm and is serving a prison sentence
> through October 2014, according to Department of Corrections records.
>
> Jefferson is black.
>
> Jake England makes several references to the two-year anniversary of
> his father's death on his Facebook page, including a post 3:04 p.m.
> Thursday that says, "Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot
> by a f------ n----- it's hard not to go off between that and sheran
> I'm gone in the head."
>
> England's Facebook page indicates that his girlfriend, Sheran Hart
> Wilde, recently died. Her death notice was published Jan. 12 in the
> Tulsa World.
>
> Fields, Clark and Allen were likely killed early Friday, police said.
> Fields' body was discovered about 1 a.m. in a yard in the 1000 block
> of East 51st Place North. Clark's body was found about 1:50 a.m. in
> another yard in the 300 block of West 63rd Street North and Allen's
> body was found about 8:30 a.m. in the 800 block of East 36th Street
> North.
>
> The two men who survived were found in the street in the 1300 block of
> East 51st Place North three minutes after police found Fields' body.
>
> Willingham said early Sunday that he could not confirm whether revenge
> was a motive. Police had previously said that the victims had no
> apparent connection to each other.
>
> At 10:15 p.m. Friday, Jake England posted on Facebook, "Chilling at
> that house people talking s--- on me for some s--- I didn't do ... it
> just mite be the time to call it quits I I hate to say it like that
> but I'm done if something does happen tonite be ready for another
> funeral later."
>
> Alvin Watts, who is Jake England's friend on Facebook, has frequently
> posted to England's Facebook page since January. His posts seem to be
> aimed at encouraging England not to be down in the wake of the deaths
> in his life.
>
> Tulsa jail records list the same home address for Watts and England in
> the 2800 block of East 61st Street North.
>
> Authorities served a search warrant at the residence before further
> surveillance led them early Sunday to a neighborhood about a mile
> west, according to their arrest report.
>
> The location of their arrest as shown in their arrest report does not
> correspond to a residence, according to Tulsa County property records.
> The report says they were found in the 6200 block of North Yorktown
> Avenue.
>
> Watts' Facebook page says he lives in Sperry, is from Muskogee and
> attended Muskogee High School. His arrest report lists his next of kin
> as his brother in Sperry.
>
> England's Facebook page says he is from Tulsa and attended Sperry High School.
>
> According to the arrest reports, several people who called the Tulsa
> Crime Commission's anonymous Crime Stoppers tip line Saturday reported
> that England was responsible for the shootings.
>
> Callers said he owned a white pickup and intended to burn it.
>
> Osage County deputies found a burned white pickup near 6000 N. Osage
> Drive about 6 p.m. Saturday, the reports say. The truck's registration
> checked to Jacob or Carl England, the arrest reports say.
>
> England and Watts were booked into the Tulsa Jail without bail on
> three complaints of first-degree murder, two complaints of shooting
> with intent to kill and a complaint of possession a firearm in
> commission of a felony.
>
> Jake England's first name is listed in jail records as Jacob.
>
> Read more from this Tulsa World article at
> http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120408_297_0_Tomnhv525414
>
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> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
>
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