Police have released the name of a man stabbed to death Monday.
Also, police have released the name of one man who has been arrested in connection with the death, police report.
Tristen Lee Bingham, 19, of Oklahoma City, was fatally stabbed about 1:15 a.m.
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By Nolan Clay Staff Writer nclay@oklahoman.com
NORMAN — Murder defendant Alton Alexander Nolen admitted in a statement written for a plant supervisor that he said "I beat on Caucasians" during an argument with "a white lady" at a Moore food plant.
Jurors Monday saw the handwritten statement at the trial over a beheading and attempted beheading at Vaughan Foods on Sept.
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Matthew Dinger
Wilson Henry Perez never made it to the city's south side on Saturday night to watch a boxing match as he'd planned.
Instead, the 19-year-old's body was found in a northwest Oklahoma City park by his uncle Sunday afternoon, aunt Carrie Perez said.
Wilson Perez had come to his aunt and uncle's house, but left with a friend to meet a girl in Harlow Park, 4800 NW 19.
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By Brianna Bailey Staff Writer bbailey@oklahoman.com
Two men have been charged in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed an Oklahoma City cyclist.
One man charged in the case is accused of trying to cover up the hit-and run by later crashing the damaged SUV into a highway guardrail.
Marquez Paul Taylor, 33, of Oklahoma City is accused of leaving the scene of an accident after fatally hitting cyclist Brian Howard Bailey, 47, near NW 4 and N MacArthur in the early morning hours of March 18.
At the time of the accident, Taylor was driving an SUV that belonged to the girlfriend of his friend, Clarence Parker, 44, according to a court affidavit.
Parker told police that he let Taylor drive the SUV back to Taylor's house after Parker had too much to drink.
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ATLANTA - Police have given the all-clear after violent protest broke out at Georgia Tech.
Viewer video from the protest showed smoke and students yelling.
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A man who was accused of beheading a woman and cannibalising her corpse has died in hospital after being shot by police in South Africa.
Aphiwe Mapekula, 23, was shot in the arm, leg and stomach outside his home in Mount Frere after officers arrived to find him eating the corpse of a woman.
FROM STAFF REPORS
A 19-year-old man found dead in a northwest Oklahoma City park died of strangulation and blunt force trauma, the state medical examiner's office announced Tuesday.
The death of Wilson Henry Perez, 19, has been ruled a homicide, a medical examiner's office spokeswoman reports.
Family members found Perez's body Sunday at Harlow Park, 4800 NW 19.
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OKMULGEE — An Okmulgee County deputy shot a Duncan man and a passenger in the car he was driving during a pursuit Saturday, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation reports.
Chris Culberson, 34, was shot and wounded Saturday in Okmulgee County near Gun Club Road and Mission Road, OSBI reports.
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CHICKASHA — Investigators released names Tuesday of two Chickasha police officers shot while serving warrants Sunday.
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PAWNEE — Three men face criminal felony charges in connection with a violent road rage incident that resulted in an attack on a group of Oklahoma State University motorcycle riders near Maramec in Pawnee County.
Prosecutors filed charges Monday and Tuesday in connection with the Sunday, September 10 attack, caught on video and posted last week on YouTube.
In the video, a man gets out of a pickup and tosses a motorcycle rider to the ground before he gets on top of him and punches and kicks him a number of times while the rider is still wearing his helmet.
The motorcyclist gets up after being beaten and walks off.
A man identified as Paul Arnold Wiseley, 60, pulls out a knife and shouts, "I am the real deal!
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CHANDLER — An Oklahoma City funeral home driver was arrested on a driving under the influence complaint while taking a body from Tulsa to Oklahoma City, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokeswoman reports.
Theresa Sue Patrick, of Moore, a driver for Alpha & Omega Mortuary Services was arrested about 4:40 p.m.
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Richard Hall
From inventions to movie stars to one-of-a-kind sights, Oklahoma and her people have had their hands in a little bit of everything.
Here are 15 things about Oklahoma that might surprise you.
[pagebreak]A criminology student who lied about being raped by a taxi driver after he refused to accept a kebab-soaked tenner has been jailed for 16 months.
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Authorities confiscated nearly 195 pounds of fentanyl in a pair of busts that prosecutors said included one sting that netted 32 million lethal doses of the drug, an opioid 50 times stronger than heroin.
Four people were arrested after the busts in August and September that also netted 75 pounds of heroin and cocaine.
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FRESNO, Calif. -- A 30-year-old man who allegedly used a gun during an attempted robbery at a California Starbucks now plans to sue the good Samaritan who stepped in to stop the crime, according to KSEE.
Back in July, Ryan Flores attempted to rob a Starbucks when Cregg Jerri, 58, attacked the suspect. In the video, the suspect is shown wearing a Transformers mask and threatening a barista.
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WASHINGTON — A student from the Kyrgyz Republic was arrested Monday for causing what National Park officials called permanent damage to the Lincoln Memorial.
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An Oklahoma City police officer is on paid administrative leave after he shot and killed a deaf man Tuesday night.
Police spokesman Capt.
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Two men who escaped from a prison transport van in August are back in custody, authorities reported Wednesday.
U.S. marshals on Wednesday arrested Darren Taylor Walp, 37, of Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania, after a standoff at a Norwood, Missouri, truck stop.
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