One dead, three injured in shootings late Thursday
A Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology student was killed and three others were injured in a shooting at an apartment complex Thursday night.
Another Spartan student was arrested about 10 p.m. in a parking lot in the 9900 block of East Admiral Boulevard, police said.
The shootings occurred about 9 p.m. at the Spartan Landing complex in the 1200 block of North 89th East Avenue. The complex is just south of the Spartan campus.
One person was pronounced dead at the scene, and the three others were taken in serious condition to local hospitals, an EMSA spokeswoman said.
Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker said the three people's injuries were not life-threatening.
Doug Yost, senior vice president of Spartan, said the apartment complex is occupied by Spartan students.
Four of the five people involved were roommates, and the fifth person also lived at the complex, he said.
Yost said police had briefed school officials about the shootings. The motive still was not clear, he said late Thursday.
Spartan has been a Tulsa institution for more than 80 years, and never before has anything such as this happened, he said.
He offered the institution's condolences to the families of the students affected.
- DAVID HARPER, World Staff Writer
Man charged with raping girl he met on Facebook
A 27-year-old man who is accused of raping a 14-year-old he met on Facebook was arrested Tuesday.
Tulsa police officers arrested Juan Aguilar-Bautista at his workplace, a restaurant, on Tuesday night and booked him into the Tulsa Jail on a complaint of first-degree rape of a minor, said Sex Crimes Unit Sgt. Mark Mears.
Aguilar-Bautista met the teenager in May, and the two had been seeing each other since then, Mears said.
Police believe that he raped the girl on more than one occasion.
The victim's parents informed police after they discovered the relationship.
Aguilar-Bautista also is accused of lying to the girl, telling her he was 21, according to investigators.
He is also being held without bail for immigration officials.
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Homicide suspect now charged with day-care fire
One of four suspects in a January homicide has been charged with an unrelated arson.
Warren David Dixon, 29, was charged Wednesday with setting fire to the Great Adventures Child Care Center, 2124 E. Pine St., on Christmas Day, court filings show.
Fire officials allege that Dixon used a flammable liquid to start a fire behind the unoccupied business, which caused less than $1,000 in damage to the building's back door and exterior.
Investigators declined to discuss Dixon's motive but said the incident isn't connected with the shooting death of Ronnie Leon Stanley, 31.
Stanley was fatally shot in the 1800 block of North St. Louis Avenue shortly after 4 p.m. Jan. 4 during an ongoing dispute over money, documents indicate.
Dixon, who is also known as Warren Knighten, was arrested during a traffic stop within hours of the shooting.
Investigators allege that he and seven others - Jamal Dante Long, 19; Sean Phillip Collins, 18; Deonta Deangelo Dixon, 21; Marcus Dewayne Boyd, 23; Darius Wone McFarland, 19; Joshua Lavel Harring, 17; and Jamal Adrian Fortenberry, 19 - were in a stolen minivan used in Stanley's slaying, the filings show.
Long, Collins and Warren Dixon face first-degree murder, possession of a stolen vehicle and weapons charges. Deonta Dixon is charged with first-degree murder and joyriding.
Boyd, McFarland and Harring face weapons and joyriding charges. Fortenberry was also charged with joyriding, which is a misdemeanor.
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Tulsan pleads guilty, gets 8 years for bar shootings
A Tulsa man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a bar shooting that wounded three people, according to police.
Cordero Jerome Barber, 26, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
Those counts stemmed from a March 4 shooting inside the Southern Hills Bar and Grill, 2222 E. 61st St., in which a man and two women were injured by gunfire.
A count of shooting with intent to kill involving the male victim was dismissed in May when he did not cooperate with the prosecution, court records indicate.
Tulsa County District Judge James Caputo sentenced Barber to eight years in prison in accordance with a plea agreement. He must serve at least 85 percent of that term - almost seven years - before becoming eligible for parole.
Barber has been in the Tulsa Jail since his March 4 arrest.
- BILL BRAUN, World Staff Writer
Former 'Most Wanted' in hit-and-run crash arrested
A man who was named Tulsa's Most Wanted fugitive two months ago has been jailed.
Andrew Joshua Galloway, also known as Andrew Penny, was charged Dec. 6 with two felony counts of leaving the scene of an injury collision after a two-vehicle crash in November.
Prosecutors allege that Galloway, 37, was driving a 2008 Dodge Charger when he ran a stop sign at 14th Street and 131st East Avenue and struck a 2002 Chevrolet Blazer at 50 mph.
Two men were hospitalized, and one of them had a "severe head injury that required sedation," officials said.
Galloway was named the Tulsa Police Department's Most Wanted fugitive on Dec. 18.
He was arrested Wednesday morning. His bail in the felony case exceeds $50,000. He also owes $9,182.80 in court costs and $1,250 on traffic warrants.
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Report of eight people shot was bogus, police say
A report phoned in to police that eight people had been shot in a residence early Thursday turned out to be bogus, police said.
A caller told dispatchers he or she had witnessed a shooting in a home in the 5800 block of East 47th Street just after 8:30 a.m., Officer Leland Ashley said. The caller said as many as eight people might be shot.
Police converged on the neighborhood and surrounded the home. Officers cleared the residence within about 40 minutes, and no victims were found.
An officer at the scene told reporters that responders encountered a woman with obvious mental problems who was convinced that she had witnessed a mass shooting.
Ashley said false calls, although serious, aren't uncommon and pose myriad dangers for responders and residents.
"One of the biggest challenges (of police work) is going to a call and not really knowing what's going to be there when you get there," he said. "So much of our job is the unknown."
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
Car crashes into sandwich shop after hitting vehicle
Two drivers were treated at hospitals Thursday morning after a traffic accident propelled one car into a Tulsa restaurant.
A 63-year-old man who was driving north on Lewis Avenue after leaving the Walgreens pharmacy at 71st Street dropped his prescription, ran a red light and clipped a westbound vehicle, Tulsa Police Officer Doug Chism said.
The man told police that he "just couldn't stop" and continued through the intersection.
His blue Kia hopped a curb on the west side of Lewis and drove into the northeast corner of the Schlotzsky's restaurant, police said.
Firefighters rescued the man, who suffered a leg injury and was pinned in the car's wreckage, Chism said.
The other motorist, a 38-year-old woman, had a possible back injury.
- AMANDA BLAND, World Staff Writer
