Oklahoma Apartment Shooting Update: Twins, 23, among four women found shot to death

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

(CBS/AP) TULSA, Okla. - Police say 23-year-old twins were among four women found shot to death in an apartment Monday in a rough neighborhood in south Tulsa. A 3-year-old boy was found unharmed.

CBS affiliate KOTV spoke to Larry Powell, the father of the twins, who confirmed that the 3-year-old was his grandson.

"The little baby, you know, he had to sit there all day and look at what they did. How could you do something like that?" Powell said, according to the station.

KOTV reports this is not the first time Powell has experienced the pain of losing a child. His son died from the flu in 2003. Now, his two remaining daughters are also gone.

Officers don't know what relationship the other victims, women ages 33 and 55, had to the twins or the child. Tulsa police spokesman Leland Ashley said Tuesday there is no "clear-cut suspect" and that investigators don't know why the women were killed.

The Fairmont Terrace apartment complex has a nighttime security patrol but police believe the killings occurred in broad daylight.

The bodies were found midday Monday, about an hour after anyone last heard from someone at the apartment.

The neighborhood is about a mile from the Southern Hills Country Club and two miles from Oral Roberts University.

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by michael4yah January 8, 2013 9:20 PM EST: Unbelievable. I grew up in So. Tulsa about 2 miles from there. When I read that this was in a tough area I was shocked. When I lived there there were no tough areas. They need to get rid of those apartments that are on federal subsidies. There has been more and more black on white crime over the last few years. I hope for their sakes it wasnt black on white crime. People in Tulsa have a history of coming to the conclusion when enough is enough. After hearing from a few I think people in Tulsa are fed up.; Reply to this comment