Shelby: Crutcher would still be alive if he would have communicated, listened to commands
Charged with first-degree manslaughter, Betty Shelby took the witness stand Monday as her criminal trial nears completion.
Kassie McClung May 15, 2017
Charged with first-degree manslaughter, Betty Shelby took the witness stand Monday as her criminal trial nears completion.
Kassie McClung May 12, 2017
“It angered me a lot,” Sgt. Dave Walker testified Friday.
Dylan Goforth May 11, 2017
Shelby was shown in a recorded interview three days after the shooting screaming, crying and at times sitting on the floor as she described the events that followed after she met Terence Crutcher.
Kassie McClung May 10, 2017
The interaction between Terence Crutcher and Betty Shelby in the middle of a road in North Tulsa last September didn’t last long, but the evidence the court will hear over the next couple of weeks will surround that moment, attorneys said Wednesday.
Dylan Goforth May 9, 2017
Shelby’s attorney, Shannon McMurray, first asked one of the six potential black jurors whether race “had any place in the courtroom,” then asked whether race “had anything to do with the shooting.”
Clifton Adcock May 9, 2017
A Tulsa judge also found Tuesday that former Trooper Sheldon Robinson was acting outside his duties as a law enforcement officer when he fatally shot Michael Swatosh in 2013.
Kassie McClung May 8, 2017
Day One of the first-degree manslaughter trial of Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby was primarily spent in the beginning stages of whittling down the pool of 70 jurors.
Dylan Goforth May 5, 2017
Nathan Bradshaw died last year after a hanging attempt in the Tulsa Jail. Tulsa County commissioners have approved a $150,000 settlement in the lawsuit his family filed.
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