Two suspects identified in homicide of inmate at Oklahoma County jail

6-5-2017 Oklahoma:

An inmate at the Oklahoma County jail who died in early February was the victim of a homicide, the first at the troubled facility in almost three years, an autopsy report shows.

Two suspects already have been identified and are in custody, authorities said.

The victim, Ricky Earl Windle, died because of complications from multiple blunt force trauma, the pathologist who did the autopsy concluded. He was 53.

The autopsy report — released in May by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner — lists the manner of death as homicide. Windle had been assaulted at the jail Jan. 10, the autopsy report also shows. His injuries included three broken ribs.

Windle died Feb. 5 at a hospital, a day after being found unconscious alone in his cell. His death earlier had been described by the sheriff's office as apparently from natural causes.

Oklahoma City police investigating rape complaint shoot, kill convicted sex offender

7-24-15 Oklahoma:

Oklahoma City police shot and killed a convicted sex offender Wednesday while investigating a rape complaint. Andre Dontrell Williams, 26, was wanted after a woman reported she was held against her will and raped repeatedly at a home in northeast Oklahoma City.

A convicted sex offender was shot and killed Wednesday by Oklahoma City police investigating a rape complaint.

Andre Dontrell Williams, 26, of Oklahoma City, was wanted for questioning after a woman reported she was held against her will and repeatedly raped Tuesday evening inside a northeast Oklahoma City house.

The victim, who went to the residence willingly, managed to escape Wednesday morning. She went to a hospital where she provided a description of her attacker and the house where she was raped, police Capt. Paco Balderrama said.

Oklahoma County jail inmate admits killing another inmate to prove worthiness, investigator reports

5-23-2014 Oklahoma:

Ragle Demond Johnson is being held on a murder complaint in the Oklahoma County jail.

An Oklahoma County jail inmate suffering from psychosis has admitted choking another inmate to death early Wednesday in their cell, a state agent reported.

Ragle Demond Johnson, 38, of Oklahoma City, is now being held on a murder complaint.

Johnson said he killed “to prove his worthiness to Wahayoo,” Special Agent Martin Solorzano of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation wrote in a court affidavit filed Friday.

The reference to “Wahayoo” is not further explained.

Johnson “admitted to having psychosis and taking medication for it,” the agent wrote in the affidavit.

Daughter: Inmate had more than 100 wounds

4-1-2014 Oklahoma:

A James Crabtree Correctional Center inmate died from more than 100 stab wounds, his daughter said she learned from the funeral home handling his cremation.

Sheryl Coleman viewed her father’s body on Wednesday, the same day an official from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed 61-year-old Timothy Dunivan died from multiple sharp force injuries.

“It was really bad. They tried to piece his face together, but they couldn’t so I only saw one side of him,” Coleman said. “There was only one stab in that one eye, underneath. It looked like they tried to cut his eyes out.”

Dunivan was found dead at the prison in Helena at about 8 a.m. Saturday.

The manner of Dunivan’s death is homicide, said Amy Elliott, chief administrative officer with the state medical examiner’s office, said in response to an Open Records Act request seeking autopsy records.
An autopsy report is pending, Elliott said.

Coleman said family members counted approximately 20 stab wounds on Dunivan’s face and learned he had wounds to his hands, arms, shoulders and back.

“The right eye, right in the corner of (his) eye, right in the eyelid, you could see there was a huge stab there,” she said. “And then the chin and the forehead.”

Suspect in 2009 beating confirmed dead

7-2-2013 Oklahoma:

Remains found last year are wanted man’s

Muskogee County sheriff’s investigators have closed the case on a man wanted for the brutal beating of his grandfather.

Skeletal remains found in December proved to be those of the suspect in the case, Timothy Curtis Peterson (33) of Oktaha, Sheriff Charles Pearson said. When and how Peterson died has not been determined, he said.

Peterson’s skull and several bones were found in December in a wooded area near Quinton in Pittsburg County on private property, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

The remains were believed to have been there between two and five years. Peterson would be 34 if he were alive.

Peterson was wanted by the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Department for assault and by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force for failing to register as a sex offender, Pearson said. A $2,500 reward had been offered for his arrest.