An altercation between two cousins early Sunday in Bricktown led to one man dead and another facing a murder complaint, police said.
Around 2:25 a.m., Oklahoma City police responded to a call at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites at 101 E Main St., where they found Mario Vines, 48, dead inside a hallway.
Police said Vines was involved in an altercation with his 39-year-old cousin, Tarius Reed, when Reed pulled out a pistol and shot Vines to death.
Vines was pronounced dead at the scene.
Reed was booked into the Oklahoma County jail on a murder complaint. He was being held without bail.
The cousins are from Daphne, Alabama, and were in Oklahoma City for work, authorities said.
The shooting death is
An Oklahoma City police officer has been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the deadly shooting of a 60-year-old mentally ill Black man.
Sgt. Clifford Holman was charged with the felony Thursday in Oklahoma County District Court, more than two months after the Dec. 11 shooting death of Bennie Edwards in the parking lot of a business near the 2100 block of W Hefner Road.
If convicted, Holman, who has seven years of service on the force, faces four years to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving at least 85% of the sentence.
District Attorney David Prater filed the charge himself, and also filed a second-degree manslaughter felony charge in the alternative, which typically carries a two- to
Armando Rubio, a fixture on Spanish-language television in Oklahoma and a well-known champion of Hispanic causes in the Sooner State, died Thursday as a result of COVID-19. He was 73.
“He loved the Latino community of Oklahoma and the state, and what it provided for him and his family,” son-in-law John Woods said. “He knew the Latino community deserved a voice in Oklahoma.”
Rubio worked as Telemundo T30's station manager and entered metro area homes each week on a TV show he hosted about vital issues in the local Hispanic community.
His journey to becoming a legendary Hispanic broadcaster in Oklahoma started in El Paso, Texas, where he was born May 6, 1947. The journey took him through Juarez, Mexico, where he
In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol, a former FBI special agent is warning against the rise of domestic terrorism and its spread through social media channels.
Frank Figliuzzi, who served 25 years in the FBI, including time as the bureau’s assistant director for counterintelligence, said Monday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum that the bombing that killed 168 people here more than 25 years ago can be instructive to combating home-grown terror.
“To what extent does this place and what it’s experienced in Oklahoma City do they play a role in helping to educate the public on the threats we face and the steps we can take collectively as a nation to prevent the next act of
An early morning house fire Thursday in northeast Oklahoma City caused $20,000 in damage to the structure and contents, authorities said.
Around 1:49 a.m., a caller reported a car in a driveway in the 1700 block of NE 11 was catching a house on fire.
The caller knocked on the door of the house and woke up one occupant who evacuated the home.
Firefighters reported finding a detached garage fully on fire.
The garage had a small apartment inside but was vacant and had no utilities.
A neighbor reported someone had been squatting in the garage. No one else was found.
With the winter freeze still gripping the metro area, the Oklahoma City Fire Department is being hammered with calls related to automatic