Two young survivors include a child.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Police responding to a silent 911 call found five people stabbed to death inside a suburban Tulsa home and subsequently detained two male teenagers after a police K-9 unit tracked them to nearby woods.
Broken Arrow police Sgt. Thomas Cooper told Fox news Thursday that a young girl survived the ordeal with wounds, while another child in the home was not harmed. The child who was not wounded has been transferred to state custody, Cooper added.
The suspects, the deceased, the surviving teen, and the unharmed two-year-old girl were all relatives, and all lived at the home, Broken Arrow Police Sgt. Thomas Cooper said. The 13-year-old was taken to the hospital with stab wounds and is in serious but stable condition. She had surgery Thursday morning, NewsOn6.com in Oklahoma reported.
“It was a pretty gruesome scene and unprecedented in terms of the types of crimes we get in Broken Arrow,” Cooper told NBC News. “The crime scene has taken a pretty heavy toll on officers who have come out here,” he added. “It hits close to home, especially when the victims are adults and juveniles. Our officers have a lot to take in.”
Broken Arrow, a city of around 100,000, averages one or two homicides “every couple of years,” Cooper stated.
Broken Arrow Police Cpl. Leon Calhoun told the Associated Press that police were having a hard time notifying next of kin because so many relatives were entangled in the stabbing.
“It certainly is shocking. I’m shocked,” neighbor Patricia Statham told the Associated Press. “I feel so bad for everyone who walks into that house. You can see it in the faces of the officers when they come out.”