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Okla. Labor Commissioner Killed

“What really stands out to me was his dedication to public service”.

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He told the affiliate that the two men circled the building a few times before he attacker stabbed Costello in the head. We assume that’s his wife of the victim. “My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to all who knew him”.

During his career, he was an advocate of small government and closed the Department of Labor’s Tulsa office because he felt it was being underused.

Christian Costello is being held in the Oklahoma County jail on a murder complaint. According to Heavy, the younger Costello had asked his father to meet him at Braum’s; the two then got into an altercation before stabbing his father in the back.

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In a statement issued Monday through family spokesman Joshua Harlow, Mark Costello’s family says it can’t adequately express the “shock and sadness” it has experienced since his stabbing death Sunday.

A woman told police 26-year-old Christian Costello was walking around the school Friday afternoon around 4 p.m. Police investigate the scene where Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello was fatally stabbed, Sunday, August 23, 2015, in Oklahoma City.

Christian Costello’s attorney in the 2012 case, Charles Gile, didn’t immediately respond to a phone message seeking comment left Monday.

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Police said the commissioner was stabbed several times around his neck and head in a fight that started inside the Braum’s and spread into the parking lot, KWTV-TV reported.

Witnesses said Mark Costello’s wife also tried to separate Christian Costello from his father and get the commissioner into the family auto, but she couldn’t stop the fatal attack.

The woman said she saw him with his trousers down in front of a school window. “He passionately worked to represent conservative values not only as labor commissioner, but also in other areas, such as his work to give a voice to the unborn through the pro-life movement”, Inhofe said.

U.S. Sen. James Lankford said his family is stunned and deeply grieved to learn of Costello’s death.

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Final yr, he was cited for a misdemeanor, “outraging public decency”, for allegedly standing outdoors of an Oklahoma Metropolis elementary faculty together with his pajama trousers down.

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