Jake England, 19, and Alvin Watts, 32, the two suspects arrested for the shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa’s black community, leaving three people dead and two others wounded, have confessed, according to police documents.
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According to the Associated Press, the documents say that England confessed to shooting three people and Watts confessed to shooting two.
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The two suspects appeared in court Monday to have their bond set at $9.16 million apiece. Authorities say they expect to charge the pair with three counts of first-degree murder and other crimes.
England and Watts’ shooting spree came as result of a killing that took place more than two years ago. England’s father, Carl England, was fatally shot in 2010 by a man who had threatened his daughter and tried to kick in the door of her home.
The man was black, and police say England may have been seeking vengeance when he and his roommate shot five black people last week.
Family and friends say Carl England’s death sent his son into a downward spiral.
On Thursday, Jake England apparently wrote a Facebook post marking the second anniversary of his father’s death and lamented that “it’s hard not to go off.”
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.”
England and Watts remain in custody after the shooting.
