Police have arrested Jake England, 19, and his friend and accomplice Alvin Watts, 32, for the shooting rampage of five black victims in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
STORY: 2 Suspects Arrested In Racially Charged Tulsa Shootings
England and Watts went on a shooting spree, gunning down five black victims on the second anniversary of his father’s death at the hands of an African American.
Both England and Watts face murder charges over the shootings in Tulsa, Oklahoma that killed three and left two wounded.
A day before the shooting, England went on his Facebook page to rage about the ‘f****** n*****’ who shot his father to death two years earlier.
On the night of the shooting England and Watts drove through black neighborhoods in northern Tulsa in a white pickup truck and gunned down five strangers near the spot where England’s father died, according to police.
England wrote on his Facebook wall:
“Today is two years that my dad has been gone shot by a f****** n****** it’s hard not to go off.”
The Tulsa Worldreported that England’s father, Carl, was shot in the chest during a scuffle with a man who had tried to break into his daughter’s apartment. England later died.
The man charged in the shooting is serving a six-year sentence on a weapons charge, according to Department of Corrections records.
England also mentioned Sheran Wilde, 24, his girlfriend and the mother of his young son, who died in January saying:
“between that and sheran I’m gone in the head. RIP. Dad and sheran I. Love and miss u. I think about both of u every second of the day.”
Since the shooting, England’s Facebook page has been taken down.
Police captured England and Watts off an anonymous tip at about 2am Sunday at a home in Turley, just north of Tulsa. The two men were roommates, and officers went to their home, and then followed them several blocks to another home, where they were arrested without incident.
Both are currently being held at the Tulsa Jail on three first-degree murder complaints, two complaints of shooting with intent to kill and a single complaint of possession of a firearm while committing a felony.
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