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believed Wilkerson was shooting
at Hope’s sister, Emily Jones,
after Wilkerson and Jones had an
earlier dispute.
Clarence Goode Jr. was sen-tenced
to Death for the August
2005 slaying of three people at
an Owasso home. Kayla
Burchett, 10, her mother,
Tara Burchett-Thompson,
25, and Mitch Thompson, 28,
were shot to death in a bedroom
of the home. The child lived with
her grandparents in Collinsville
but was spending the night with
her mother in Owasso when the
murders occurred.
Tracy Courtney was sen-tenced
to Life in Prison for the
March 20, 2006 murder of
Jeffrey Bruno, who was shot
while a passenger in a car in
Tulsa. Jurors also sentenced
Courtney to 30 Years in
Prison for shooting with intent
to kill the driver, Stephan Jean-
Claude, who was not struck by
the shots fired.
See MURDERERS Page 2
T wenty murderers were
sent to prison from
Tulsa County in 2007.
Juries handed long prison sen-tences
to 18 and two others
pleaded guilty to murder rather
than face a jury.
Douglas Ashworth was
given Life Without Parole for
the first-degree murder of
Adriane Barker, 26, of Tulsa
in December 2005. Ashworth
shot Barker in the head at his
home. She was found in a river a
month after she was murdered.
Clarence Andre Gatewood
was convicted of second-degree
murder and sentenced to
19 Years in Prison for the
death of David Wright
Graham, 40. Graham died after
he was beaten in August 2004.
Gatewood admitted punching
and kicking him in the head.
Jurors convicted Eric Watson
of first-degree murder for shoot-ing
Johnny Chinn, 24, on
March 14, 2006. Watson, a
career criminal with five former
felony convictions, was sen-tenced
to Two Life Terms for
the murder and possession of a
firearm after former felony
conviction.
Kiabi Wilkerson was convicted
of second-degree murder and
sentenced to Life in Prison for
the shooting death of Angela
Hope, 40. Hope was shot in the
chest Dec. 28, 2005. Prosecutors
The crimes occurred between
August 2001
and February
2006. As the
result of a plea
Graham will
now spend the
rest of his life
behind bars.
Graham pled no
contest to 13
counts, includ-ing
first-degree rape, attempted
rape, lewd molestation and first-degree
burglary.
"This plea brings justice to his
victims and to the community,”
said District Attorney Tim Har-ris.
"These two life sentences
in our calculation will ensure that
this defendant will die in the
penitentiary, and he will never
hurt another citizen in the Tulsa
community,” Harris said.
District Attorney Tim Harris
considers prosecution of
violent crime as Priority #1.
Twenty Murderers Sent to Prison in ‘07
INSIDE:
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DUI Death 3
Protecting
Families
4
Protecting
Children
5
Riot Charges
Dismissed
6
Funding 7
Tim’s Message 8
Two Life Prison Terms for Serial Sex Offender
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Sex offender Gary Graham Jr.
terrorized women and girls
for four years, entering the vic-tims'
homes through windows
and patio doors to assault them.
Tulsa Police formed a task
force to crack the case and
arrested Graham in 2006.
DNA linked Graham to many
attacks and he was charged in
the sexual assaults of nine
women and girls, ages 4 to 36.
MISSION
Our mission is to insure
that our legal system
effectively protects each
of us, our families and our
communities from crime,
delinquency, abuse and
other threats to the peace
and safety of society,
and to provide effective
representation of
county officers.
We will strive to
incarcerate violent
offenders, protect
victims’ rights,
hold juvenile offenders
accountable for their
actions, advocate for
children, preserve family
values, and uphold the law
and Constitutions of our
great state of
Oklahoma and
the United States.