"Crazed Killer on the loose"?Three killed, two injured in Oklahoma shooting spree, all five victims are black.(NYDN).Police believe that five separate shootings in north Tulsa, Okla. early Friday morning are connected -- and the fact that all five victims are black has local community leaders on edge.
According to The Associated Press, the shootings took place between 1:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., in a three-mile area of north Tulsa. Three of the victims were shot dead and two are in critical condition.
Police don't believe that the victims knew each other, but are treating the crimes as linked because the shootings took place so close together, and because the victims were all out walking at the time they were shot.
Those killed were identified Friday as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, William Allen, 31. The other two victims are in the hospital in critical condition, and have not been identified.Homicide detective Sgt. Dave Walker said that residents interviewed in the area of the shootings say a white man driving a white pickup truck may have been involved."Word on the street is that this person would drive up to people walking, ask for directions, and when they would turn away, walk away, began firing," Tulsa City Councilor Jack Henderson told KRMG News after the NAACP meeting concluded. "That's truly a concern, and anybody would be [ill] at ease if you knew this was going on."
"If you systematically target black folks and that's all you shot, and you come to the north side of town and you're a white male, and we know he was a white male, then what is one left to believe?" Rev. Warren Blakney, president of the Tulsa NAACP, told local NBC affiliate KJRH-TV.
Police are calling the shootings an "unprecedented" incident.Hmmmm.........You think the race card has been played up before? Just wait. 2012 is gonna be the most brutal political cycle we have ever witnessed. Ever."Read the full story here.More here.
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