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MUSKOGEE, Okla. – The suspect in a fatal shooting of a man and five children in their home was held Wednesday on multiple murder charges as investigators labored to determine what prompted the rampage.
Police said Jarron Deajon Pridgeon, 25, opened fire early Tuesday, killing his brother, Javarion Lee, 24, and the children, all under the age of 10. Pridgeon, 25, had been evaluated for mental illness after being charged with assault in 2019, court records show.
The children s mother, Brittany Anderson, suffered life-threatening injuries in the house and was airlifted to a Tulsa hospital, police said. She was in stable condition, police said.
Dec 30, 2020
Testing for the novel coronavirus this past week at Muskogee County/City Detention Facility turned up 95 inmates with positive tests.
Sheriff Terry Freeman said testing was undertaken as a precautionary measure, one of many implemented by his office since the first COVID-19 case in Oklahoma was reported March 6. Those proactive measures, he said, kept coronavirus outside the jail until September, when a smaller outbreak was limited to 23 positive cases. We re going to keep doing what we do, Freeman said Wednesday after results arrived for the tests that remained pending a day before. We are very proactive about monitoring inmates even before they test positive â if we even suspect somebody might be infected, we monitor them and any symptoms they might have.
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