2 men found dead inside tent

BY KENDRICK MARSHALL World Staff Writer
Thursday, March 07, 2013
3/07/13 at 3:54 AM


Tulsa police believe two men died Wednesday evening by asphyxiation after a candle was left burning inside a tent.

Police say two men and a woman were staying in a tent in the 1500 block of North Utica Avenue with a candle burning. The woman left the tent and upon returning found the two men dead.

Police got the call around 6 p.m. Wednesday.

No ages or identifications on the two men have been released. Police said the three were staying in a tent in a small field next to railroad tracks off Utica Avenue near the Pine Street exit of the Cherokee Expressway.


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