3 killed, 2 injured in Oklahoma shootings

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3 killed, 2 injured in Oklahoma shootings
By Nick Valencia, CNN
updated 9:39 AM EDT, Sat April 7, 2012



(CNN) -- Three people were killed and two were injured Friday in four shootings in north Tulsa, Oklahoma and police are searching for a lone suspected gunman, they said.

Tulsa police spokesman Capt. Jonathan Brooks said investigators were looking into whether the shootings may have been possible hate crimes.

<..> All of the victims are black. The suspected shooter is a white male and is believed to be traveling in a white truck, said Brooks.

<..> They range in age from 31 to 54. They were shot over the course of seven hours at four different street locations in the early morning, Brooks said.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/06/us/oklahom...?hpt=hp_t2

The police say the shooter drove up to people walking, asking for directions, and they shot them.

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Holy crap - tuning in now.

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Could this be blowback from the Trayvon murder? The media is saying more whites think Zimmerman is innocent. I don't know, just thinking out loud.
From listening to the video there isn't much doubt the shooter came to the African American community and blatantly shot people.

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(04-07-2012 10:45 AM)jaxx Wrote:  Could this be blowback from the Trayvon murder? The media is saying more whites think Zimmerman is innocent. I don't know, just thinking out loud.
From listening to the video there isn't much doubt the shooter came to the African American community and blatantly shot people.

No idea - I haven't even seen a live update on this story yet.

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A couple more articles on this:

NAACP calls emergency meeting in wake of north Tulsa shooting spree
The meeting was held at a north Tulsa Church Friday evening

<..> "Don't go out late at night walking by yourself, until these people are apprehended. We need to be careful, and we don't want anybody to go out and do any vigilante-type stuff either. Let the police do their jobs."
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/naac...sho/nMLg5/


Shooter targeting blacks in Tulsa, Oklahoma?

<..> Four shooting victims were found in yards, and the fifth in a street. Police identified those killed as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31. Fields was found wounded about 1 a.m. Friday, Clarke was found in a street about an hour later, and Allen was discovered in the yard of a funeral home about 8:30 a.m.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/0...ahoma?lite