Four
young women were found shot to death in the same apartment in a rugged part of
south Tulsa on Monday, apparent victims of a midday shooting spree at a
building near a park along the Arkansas River. A 4-year-old boy was found
unharmed.
Police
wouldn't say whether the victims - all in their late teens or early 20s - were
related or how they would have known each other, and wouldn't say whether the
boy was related to any of them. Police said they did not yet know not yet know
why the women were shot, and officers were searching for whoever committed the
crime.
The
neighborhood around the Fairmont Terrace Apartments is a seedy oasis in the
rest of south Tulsa.
The Southern Hills Country Club is a mile east and Oral Roberts
University is two miles
southeast.
At
the apartment complex, bed sheets or cardboard hang as improvised draperies in
many windows behind a black wrought-iron gate. The guard shack is empty and
signs read "Curfew 10 p.m. for everyone, everyday" and "Photo ID
required to be on property."
The
building's website says a courtesy safety patrol is available after dark, but
police believe the killings occurred between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Officer
Jill Roberson said police received a 911 call about 12:30 p.m., and Ashley said
someone had spoken to someone at the apartment less than an hour earlier.
Frankie
Williams, 25, an oil field worker, said his girlfriend lives about 100 feet
from the apartment where the women were found dead.
"She's
going to be moving out right quick. This is not the place to be raising a
3-month-old," he said. "This is pretty intense."
Sennie
Anderson, 20, is soon to mark two years at the apartment complex.
"I've
been afraid since I moved in this place," she said, clutching her visibly
upset 3-year-old daughter, Da'Mya. "I think it's getting worse."
Ashley
said police were hopeful someone in the community would come forward with more
information about the shootings.
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