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By Staff Reports
Published: 11/6/2009 2:28 AM
Last Modified: 11/6/2009 4:24 AM

2 men charged in killing of man at taco stand

Two men were charged Thursday with the murder of a man at a taco stand this week.

Prosecutors allege that Roberto Urquiza shot Erik Victorino with a shotgun in a parking lot at 10822 E. 41st Street about 2:30 a.m. Monday.

Urquiza and Erik Montoya, who also goes by the name Luis Alberto Mendoza, are charged with first-degree murder and shooting with an intent to kill, records show.

Court records allege that the two men were in a Ford pickup driven by Montoya when Urquiza shot Victorino.

Montoya was arrested late Monday in St. Louis, Mo.

Police are still looking for Urquiza. Anyone with information about the homicide or his whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 596-COPS, send a text message to police or submit an online tip at tulsaworld.com/crimestoppers.

The Crime Commission offers rewards for information leading to arrests, and tipsters can remain anonymous.

JARREL WADE, World Staff Writer

Tulsa school board accepts official's resignation

The Tulsa school board voted Thursday to accept the resignation of its newly hired special education director as part of a settlement agreement.

The agreement calls for Andre Williams to be paid a lump sum of $13,000, a small fraction of the $112,000 annual salary he was to receive.

Tulsa Public Schools suspended and began termination proceedings against Williams in October.

Superintendent

Keith Ballard said then that he could not specify a reason other than to say it was "for cause" because it involved a personnel matter.

Williams came to Tulsa from Atlanta to take the position on Aug. 10th.

— Andrea Eger, World staff writer

Firefighter chili cookoff off; too few tickets sold

A firefighters chili cookoff that was scheduled for Saturday has been canceled.

Fifteen firefighters were to pit their chili recipes against each other at the Tulsa Fire Department Training Center, department spokesman Bill French said Thursday.

A $10 ticket would have gotten adults a people's choice tray or a big bowl of chili with Fritos and all the extras, French said.

However, not enough tickets were sold, he said.

The proceeds were to have to benefited the Tulsa Area United Way and the city's Charitable Giving Campaign.

— Jarrel Wade, World staff writer

Crash claims 2nd victim; other crash victims ID'd

A second man has died from injuries he received in a Bixby car crash, and police have released the names of the earlier victim of that crash and of a man who died in a Tulsa crash this week.

Dead are Jack Roger Williams Sr., 86, and Jack Roger Williams Jr., 63, both of Bixby; and Bryan Marrs, 39, of Sand Springs.

Marrs was in the back seat of a vehicle that had turned left in front of oncoming traffic at 51st Street and Harvard Avenue and was struck in the passenger side shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

All three people in that car, a Dodge Intrepid, were taken to a hospital, where Marrs was pronounced dead.

Jack Williams Sr. was killed Oct. 27 when the vehicle in which he was a passenger crossed a median on 151st Street near Harvard Avenue and hit an oncoming sport utility vehicle shortly after 5 p.m., Bixby police said.

The vehicle, a Nissan sedan, was driven by his son, Jack Rogers Williams, who was taken by Life Flight to St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. A hospital spokeswoman said the son died Thursday morning.

"He was going all over the road," Bixby Police Chief Ike Shirley said, noting that officials think his erratic driving was due to a medical condition.

The SUV driver, Freda Stephens, 62, of Beggs, was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa and has been released, Shirley said.

— From Staff Reports

House fire that killed man attributed to cigar

A house fire that claimed the life an 86-year-old man last week was caused when a cigar caught a chair on fire.

Leroy "Lee" Coleman was rescued from his house in the 4600 block of South Maplewood Avenue on Oct. 30.

Firefighters administered CPR to him, and his pulse was restored at the scene, Fire Department spokesman Bill French said. Coleman, whose age originally was reported as 90, died later that night at Hillcrest Medical Center.

French said fire investigators determined that a cigar that Coleman had been smoking had caught a recliner on fire.

— Nicole Marshall, World staff writer By Staff Reports

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