Five children, one man shot, killed in Oklahoma
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Feb. 2 (UPI) Five children and a man were shot and killed in an Oklahoma home early Tuesday, authorities said.
Police responded to a call of multiple people shot at a residence in southeast Muskogee, Okla., at 1:30 a.m. where they found a suspect with a weapon, officials said.
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An officer fired one round at the suspect and missed, but he was later caught following a foot chase and identified as 25-year-old Jarron Deajon Pridgeon.
When officers arrived at the scene they found four dead children and a dead man as well as a woman and child who were injured, all of whom had gunshot injuries. Three other children in the home were uninjured.
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – A gunman killed five children, ages 1 to 9, and his 24-year-old brother in a mass shooting early Tuesday at a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where they
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Police charged an Oklahoma man with six counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly killed his 24-year-old brother and five children, three of whom were his own, according to authorities.
The suspect is 25-year-old Jarron Deajon Pridgeon of Muskogee, who police say shot and killed six people at his residence Tuesday. Officials did not say what prompted the incident.
The deceased are Pridgeon s brother, Javarion Lee, and five children, including three of Pridgeon s own. Three other children in the home were not harmed, police said. Authorities identified the children who died as Jalaiya Pridgeon, 1; Jaidus Pridgeon, 3; Harmony Anderson, 5; Neveah Pridgeon, 6; and Que’dynce Anderson, 9.
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MUSKOGEE, Okla. – The suspect in a fatal shooting of a man and five children in their home was held Wednesday on multiple murder charges as investigators labored to determine what prompted the rampage.
Police said Jarron Deajon Pridgeon, 25, opened fire early Tuesday, killing his brother, Javarion Lee, 24, and the children, all under the age of 10. Pridgeon, 25, had been evaluated for mental illness after being charged with assault in 2019, court records show.
The children s mother, Brittany Anderson, suffered life-threatening injuries in the house and was airlifted to a Tulsa hospital, police said. She was in stable condition, police said.