Police: Jake England and Alvin Watts confessed to Tulsa shooting spree
Updated at 6:00 a.m. Eastern.
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(CBS/AP) TULSA, Okla. - Police documents filed Monday in court say 19-year-old Jake England admitted shooting three people and 32-year-old Alvin Watts confessed to shooting two in Tulsa over the weekend, according to police.
The shootings early Friday morning left three people dead and two seriously wounded.
Tulsa police tell CBS News that both suspects have confessed. They say England admitted to shooting three people and Watts confessed to shooting two people.The explanation for the shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa's black neighborhood and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago.
Carl England, whose son is accused in the weekend shooting spree, was fatally shot in 2010 by a man who had threatened his daughter and tried to kick in the door of her home.
The man was black, and police say England's son may have been seeking vengeance when he and his roommate shot five black people last week.
Also Monday, the two suspects appeared in court to have their bond set at $9.16 million apiece. Authorities have said they expect to charge the pair with three counts of first-degree murder and other crimes.
Family and friends say Carl England's death sent his son into a downward spiral. On Thursday, Jake England apparently wrote a Facebook post marking the second anniversary of his father's death and lamented that "it's hard not to go off."
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Back in 2010, Carl England had responded to his daughter's call for help and with her boyfriend tracked down the man who tried to break in. A fight broke out, and the man took out a gun and fired at England.
The man who pulled the trigger, Pernell Jefferson, was not charged with homicide because an investigation determined he acted in self-defense.
Jefferson was charged with attempted burglary and a weapons violation and had his probation revoked in an unrelated weapons case for which he is serving a six-year sentence. He is scheduled to be tried in May on the burglary charge.
According to an affidavit, Jefferson tried to kick in the door of the apartment England's daughter shared with her boyfriend after the boyfriend hit him with a baseball bat during an earlier confrontation at the couple's home.
When Carl England and the boyfriend found Jefferson, Jefferson came at England, who hit Jefferson with a stick. Jefferson fell to the ground, pulled out a handgun and fatally shot the elder England.
Jefferson fled but was arrested after seeking treatment for his injuries at a hospital.
Watts' brother, Gene, told the Tulsa World that Watts moved in with England soon after his father died to help him rebuild his life and deal with his anger, which seemed to be racially focused.
"I've never known my brother to be no racist or anything like that," Gene Watts said. "I know he was going through a little bit of depression problems, but other than that, he's got in little scuffles before, but he's never went off and done this."
Alicia Houston, who lives near the roommates, told the newspaper she has known England since he was a child and "from the time his father died, that boy has been somebody else." She said England needed therapy "from the beginning" but didn't receive it. He was taking medication for depression, she said.
The January suicide of England's fiancDee, only months after she gave birth to their son, made matters worse. Sheran Hart Wilde died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head on Jan. 10, according to the state medical examiner's office.
All of those killed in the spree were apparently random targets.
Deon Tucker, one of the victims in the recent shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma
/ CBS News"I remember standing there talking to my friend, a white truck pull up and a man ask me an address," survivor Deon Tucker told CBS News.
Tucker was outside about 1 a.m. Friday, when he says a truck stopped in front of his house.
"I turn off to look at my friend and when I turn back I heard gunshots," Tucker said.
Tucker was hit in the chest, and says he didn't know who the gunman was, but was surprised by his race.
"I could have understood it more if it had been a black guy because like I say, I'm up north. It's a lot of gang violence and different stuff, but a white man? I didn't understand that," Tucker said.
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"how much hate they can incorporate into their existance" Seems we have two right here FormerUSMCSergeant and vernique3
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Excuse my saying so, but in my view only a total idiot could find hatred in a comment stating that confessed murderers who chose their victims by race appear filled with hatred.
jt92202, did you actually get out of the 4th grade?? I mean seriously!! What child in the 4th grade does NOT know the story of the Indian's and how Whites FORCED them to act and think WHITE!! Go back to school.. YOU are truly embarrassing!
LOL!
So thats why they did it?
Really?
these crackers will not have a good time in prison.
LOL!
The one on the right is definately a cracker, on the left, not really.
Btich please......
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-Whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.
So, when global warming, or whatever, does the human race in, the world will be at peace. We are the problem. The animals will rejoice.