Oklahoma man charged in killings of 4 males present in river

A Oklahoma man accused of killing and dismembering 4 males in jap Oklahoma was charged Monday with 4 counts of first-degree homicide.

Okmulgee County District Attorney Carol Iski introduced the costs in opposition to Joseph Kennedy, 67, at a news convention.

The dismembered our bodies of Mark Chastain, 32, Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29, have been discovered Oct. 14 within the Deep Fork River in Okmulgee, a city of round 11,000 folks that’s about 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Tulsa. The males have been believed to have left a home in Okmulgee on bicycles the night of Oct. 9.

Iski mentioned video from a close-by enterprise locations Kennedy at his Okmulgee scrap yard that night time when authorities imagine the lads have been shot and killed. She mentioned investigators additionally discovered blood and private gadgets, together with a damaged set of dentures, in a area close to the scrapyard, in addition to 7.62-caliber shell casings.

Evidence from Kennedy’s cellphone additionally place him close to a bridge the place the lads’s dismembered our bodies have been found, Iski mentioned.

Iski mentioned DNA proof from blood discovered inside one of many autos Kennedy drove and on a pair of his sneakers additionally hyperlink him to the crime.

Court paperwork filed final week point out Kennedy instructed a girl in Gore, Oklahoma, that he killed and dismembered the 4 males as a result of they have been stealing from him.

“He told her they were all against him, and he just lost it and he just started shooting,” Iski mentioned. “She said that he told her that after he shot them, that he cut them up.”

Iski mentioned she has not decided on whether or not to hunt the dying penalty.

Kennedy’s court-appointed attorneys have declined to touch upon the case.

Kennedy was arrested Oct. 17 in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, whereas driving a stolen automobile, Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice mentioned. He was later extradited to Oklahoma.