They are babies. You canât comprehend it : 5 children killed in Oklahoma shooting Share Updated: 8:24 PM CST Feb 2, 2021 KOCO Staff Share Updated: 8:24 PM CST Feb 2, 2021
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Show Transcript IN MUSKOGEE. THE MASS MURDER HAPPENING AT THIS SMALL HOME HERE OFF INDIANA. SEVEN PEOPLE IN ONE FAMILY SHOT, SIX KILLED. ONE MAN AND FIVE SMALL CHILDRE. WE RE TOLD THE FAMILY ONLY LIVED HERE ABOUT A MONTH. MY SISTER AND HER CHILDREN WERE A GREAT FAMILY. REPORTER: IN DISBELIEF AFTER HEARING THE NEWS THAT HER SISTER AND ALL FIVE OF HER CHILDREN WERE SHOT. NEIGHBORS IN THIS QUIET MUSKOGEE NEIGHBORHOOD ABSOLUTELY SHAKEN AFTER SEVEN PEOPLE IN ONE FAMILY WERE SHOT. SUSAN DVORACK SAYS POLICE NABBED THE 25-YEAR-OLD SUSPECT JARRON PRIDGEON IN HER BACKYARD. HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE IT? I MEAN, IT S TRAGIC AND THEY RE BABIES. YOU CAN T COMPREHEND IT, YOU CAN T PROCESS IT, YOU JUST CAN T. POLICE GOT THE CALL OF SHOTS FIRED ARUND 1:30 THIS
Oklahoma Man Charged for Fatal Shooting of 6, Including 5 Children
An Oklahoma man has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting six people to death, including five children, three to whom he apparently was the father.
Twenty-five-year-old Jarron Deajon Pridgeon was arrested on Tuesday. The children were aged 1, 3, 5, 6, and 9. The adult, who succumbed to the gunshot wounds in the hospital, was allegedly Jarron’s brother, 24-year-old Javarion Lee, reported Fox.
Brittany Anderson, the children’s mother has been hospitalized after being wounded, she is now in stable condition.
Newson6 reported that the aunt of the children, Raven Anderson, said that Jarron Pridgeon was the father to three of the children that were killed.
Submitted by Muskogee Public Schools Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021
We regret to inform our Muskogee Public Schools community that two members of our student family at Creek Elementary passed away overnight. Another Creek student was injured in the overnight incident.
Muskogee Public Schools was first made aware of the situation early this morning and immediately made arrangements for additional counseling services at Creek Elementary.
The following letter is from Steve Braun, Muskogee Public Schools spokesman:
Our Crisis Team is working with Green Country Behavioral Health to provide grief counseling which will continue throughout the remainder of this week. We encourage any of those students or staff members directly impacted by this incident to seek these services.