Testimony in Poores' hearing focuses on crime scene
By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer on Sep 12, 2013, at 2:26 PM
The Poore brothers --Cedric (left) and James -- are escorted into the 7th Floor courtroom for their preliminary hearing, at the Tulsa County Courthouse, on Wednesday. CORY YOUNG/Tulsa World
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A Tulsa police detective testified Thursday about the scene in an apartment bedroom at the Fairmont Terrace, where four women were shot to death earlier this year.
All four women were bound and shot in the head, Detective Mark Robinson testified.
Forty-caliber shell casings were recovered in the bedroom, Robinson said.
Photos of the scene, some of which depicted the shooting victims, were introduced as evidence at the preliminary hearing for two brothers who are charged with murder.
The killings occurred Jan. 7 at the Fairmont Terrace apartment 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.
Witnesses have testified that James Poore said he planned to “pull a lick” and steal drugs and money.
Tulsa County Special Judge Stephen Clark is presiding over the hearing, which is in its seventh day of testimony.
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