Six dead, including five children, after shooting in the United States
Police have one man in custody following a shooting in Oklahoma
16:46, 2 FEB 2021
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Updated
Feb 03, 2021
Oklahoma Man Jailed For Shooting Deaths Of 5 Kids, Brother
Police said they don t yet know why Jarron Deajon Pridgeon, 25, opened fire in the Muskogee house, reportedly killing three of his own children.
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) A 25-year-old Oklahoma man remained in custody Wednesday on first-degree murder complaints for the killings of his brother and five young children, police said.
Police in Muskogee said they don’t yet know why Jarron Deajon Pridgeon fatally shot Javarion Lee, 24, or the children, the oldest of whom was 9. The children’s mother, Brittany Anderson, was also wounded in the shootings early Tuesday and was hospitalized in Tulsa.
Staff reports | Muskogee Phoenix
Feb 2, 2021
The Muskogee Police Department has released the name of the suspect in a shooting spree early Tuesday morning that claimed the lives of six people, five of them children, and left a woman in critical condition.
Muskogee PD Public Information Officer Lynn Hamlin said Jarron Deajon Pridgeon, 25, was taken into custody following a brief foot pursuit. The suspect, who was wielding a gun at the time of his arrest, is not cooperating with law enforcement officials at this time, Hamlin said.
Online court records show that Pridgeon had one arrest in 2017, for larceny of an automobile. In February 2019, he was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, threatening to perform acts of violence, and misdemeanor malicious injury to private property. In June 2019, he was charged with obstruction, resisting an officer, and possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Those were filed as misdemeanors.