Those brought in for testimony sit in a lobby, waiting their turn. So on Thursday, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Eric Kitch appeared to catch a few winks while waiting for his name to be called.
Attorneys for the two defendants, Robert and Michael Bever, had sought to get the recording sealed.
More than two years after the slayings of four women in a south Tulsa apartment complex, a man held in that alleged crime was charged with assaulting jailhouse employees.
Robert and Michael Bever appeared only briefly Monday, visible inside a cramped bottom floor courtroom via video arraignment.
The state is on pace to smash last year’s newly-set earthquake record. At this rate, Oklahomans will top last year’s total sometime in early August and the state will breeze past the 900 mark at the end of the year.
The two boys, ages 5 and 7, are both light skinned, according to their aunt, who circulated the graphic pictures on Facebook over the weekend. They were apparently taken to a splash pad on Friday and left outside with no sunscreen.
Broken Arrow police believe 18-year-old Robert Bever and his as yet unidentified 16-year-old brother killed five members of their family during a gruesome knife and hatchet attack late Wednesday.
Killed were three juveniles, a 5-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy, along with the two parents, 52-year-old David Bever and his wife, 44-year-old April Bever, BAPD Cpl. Leon Calhoun said.
