The two survivors were a 13-year-old girl, who was injured, and the 2-year-old girl.
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No names have been released.
A K-9 team “picked up a good track on the suspects”, Cooper said.
The state medical examiner removed the bodies from the home around 1 p.m. Thursday. The word-less 911 call led to a gruesome discovery inside the home. The 13-year-old girl is hospitalized in stable but serious condition. Two teenagers were taken into custody. Police say they and the victims are related. It is considered a fairly safe community and is not as big as nearby Tulsa.
When officers responded to the home, they found blood on or near the front porch. The officers saw a wounded 13-year-old girl and pulled her out to safety. “It hit close to home, especially when the victims are adults and juveniles”. They could hear a faint voice calling for help from inside the house.
Two teenagers are in custody.
Amanda Knox makes a statement from her home regarding an Italian court’s decision to overturned the murder convictions in the 2007 stabbing death of her British roommate.
In all five people were stabbed to death, three children and two adults.
“Something like this, of this calibre, is pretty unprecedented for Broken Arrow”, he told reporters.
The victims and the suspect were related, police said.
Police said they want to know more about the brothers’ motive, but said they’ll wait until Friday to release more information. Cooper says police traced the call to the address where the victims were found.
A 2-year-old child was also found unharmed in the house and was placed in protective custody on Thursday.
Crime scene… Tape marks off the area as police investigate the house in Broken Arrow.
“My son never had an opportunity to play with him because their parents wouldn’t allow them to play with the other kids”, the 46-year-old told The Associated Press late Thursday.
The three children found dead were boys ages 12 and seven, and a girl five years old, Calhoun said. “It’s overall traumatic for them”, Sgt Thomas Cooper told KTUL.
Broken Arrow is a placid neighborhood of around 100,000 people, home to retirees and commuters to the larger neighbor of Tulsa. Another child was found unharmed.
Two suspects, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, were arrested. Their concerns were to get the injured out of harm’s way in case the person or persons who stabbed this family remained inside the home, according to MSN News on July 23.
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No further details were available.
