The Poore brothers — Cedric (left) and James — are escorted into a courtroom at the Tulsa County Courthouse on Wednesday. CORY YOUNG / Tulsa World
Tulsa County prosecutors presented cellphone records as evidence on Wednesday in an effort to link two brothers on the day four women were killed at a Tulsa apartment complex.
A T-Mobile official testified at a preliminary hearing about phone usage records for Jan. 7, the day of the deadly shootings at the Fairmont Terrace apartments.
First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond maintains that records indicate that repeated phone calls were made between James Poore and his brother, Cedric Poore, prior to the shootings.
Prosecutors indicate that a phone call attributed to Cedric Poore's phone was logged on a cell tower in the 6200 block of South Peoria Avenue around the time of the shootings.
The defense maintains that phone records don't show who made or received a phone call.
Various factors, such as weather, range and obstructions, affect cellphone records, defense lawyers say.
Police reported that the homicides occurred around 12:15 p.m. Jan. 7 in an apartment at the complex near 61st Street and Peoria Avenue.
Cedric Poore, 39, and James Poore, 32, are each charged with four counts of first-degree murder and two count of robbery with a firearm.
Killed were Julie Jackson, 55; Misty Nunley, 33; Rebeika Powell, 23; and Kayetie Powell Melchor, 23.
Rebeika and Kayetie Powell, who were sisters, lived in the apartment with Nunley, and Jackson, a neighbor, had stopped by to check on them that day.
On Wednesday prosecutors continued to call witnesses who have stayed at the Fairmont Terrace complex to testify at the hearing, which resumes Thursday before Tulsa County Special Judge Stephen Clark.
Logan Ahmed, 17, said he had stayed at the Fairmont Terrace apartment of Jamila Jones - James Poore's girlfriend - prior to the shootings.
Jones testified previously that James Poore said he shot one woman "and bro finished the other three" during a robbery at the complex.
Ahmed, 17, testified that James Poore said he shot two people and that his brother shot the other two.
James Poore threatened people at the complex, saying he would do "the same thing to us," according to Ahmed, who indicated that he had smoked marijuana at the complex in early January.
Jones has testified that the Poore brothers returned to her Fairmont Terrace apartment after the shootings and divided up drugs, money and jewelry.
James Poore lived with Jones in her apartment for several months before the slayings, she indicated.
Witnesses have testified that James Poore said he planned to "pull a lick" and steal drugs and money.
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