Koalten Orr was fourteen when he fatally shot his father’s fiance. According to court documents Koalten Orr would shoot Laura Hendrix and then walked to a police station to tell them what he had done. Initially Koalten told police he was being abused by Hendrix but this proved to be false. This teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison however he only needs to serve the first twenty five years
A 16-year-old Oklahoma boy has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his father’s fiance and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Koalten Glenn Orr, who was charged and convicted as an adult, was sentenced to life with the chance for parole, with all but the first 25 years suspended, after entering the plea Friday in Craig County District Court in Vinita.
Under the law, a teenager is tried as an adult if charged with first-degree murder.
Orr was 14 when he was charged in the August 2016 shooting death of 38-year-old Laura Hendrix at their home in Vinita.
After shooting Hendrix, Orr walked into the police station and confessed to police that he gunned down his stepmother.
He apologized to Hendrix’s family “for everything” following the sentencing.
Orr initially said he shot Hendrix because she was abusing him, but prosecutors say evidence proves that claim was false.
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A Vinita teen pleaded guilty Friday to fatally shooting his stepmother in 2016.
Koalten Orr was sentenced to life in prison, with all but 25 years suspended.
Orr is to pay a $500 fine, $5,041.78 in restitution and will be on supervised probation when he is released from the Department of Corrections, court records show.
Joshua Mooney was fourteen years old when he broke into a home and when he was surprised by the homeowner he would shoot and kill the forty seven year old woman. Once arrested Mooney would brag to other inmates about the killing. This teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison without parole
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Gender: Male
Race: White
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Weight: 134 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Green
OK DOC#: 695292
Birth Date: 4/4/1998
Current Facility: DAVIS CORRECTIONAL FACILITY-HOLDENVILLE,
Reception Date: 4/29/2014
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A Jenks teenager who is serving a life prison term for murder is seeking court relief based on a contention that he was “misled” by his attorney when he entered his guilty plea.
Signing his own application for post-conviction relief, 16-year-old Joshua Mooney asserts in a court document filed this week that his public defenders did not advise him of his right to appeal a court order denying him consideration as a youthful offender.
In the filing, Joshua Mooney says he is applying to have counsel appointed to represent him and that “I believe I am entitled to relief.’’ He indicates that he wants court-appointed counsel to assist with his application for an appeal of the youthful offender ruling.
First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond said Mooney is entitled to this appeal and that applications for post-conviction relief are not unusual.
Joshua Mooney was 14 when he fatally shot Mary Brice Escue, 47, of Reno, Nevada, at her parents’ home in Jenks on Dec. 17, 2012. He told authorities that he had broken into the house to steal money and then held Escue at gunpoint before killing her.
Last October, Tulsa County Special Judge Cliff Smith denied Mooney’s request to be treated as a youthful offender, and the state Court of Criminal Appeals upheld that ruling in January.
Mooney pleaded guilty April 4 and was convicted as an adult. He is in Department of Corrections custody at the Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington.
A plea agreement stipulated that Joshua Mooney, in pleading guilty, got life sentences with the possibility of parole on murder and robbery counts. He got a seven-year term for burglary, with all sentences running concurrently and equivalent for prison purposes to one life term.
Accepting the plea deal meant Joshua Mooney avoided the possibility of a no-parole life prison sentence or consecutive sentences.
His life sentence requires that he serve at least 38 years and three months before becoming eligible for parole.
If he had been categorized as a youthful offender, his sentence would have been much lighter.
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He gunned a woman down in cold blood when just 14 years old, and on his 16th birthday, Joshua Scott Mooney accepted a plea deal that will send him to prison for life.
Mooney agreed to plead guilty Friday to first degree murder, robbery with a firearm, and second degree burglary.
He broke into a home belonging to the parents of Mary Escue, 47, of Reno Nevada in December of 2012.
When she came home and discovered him inside, he held her at gunpoint with a rifle found inside the house, then shot and killed her.
First Asst. D.A. Doug Drummond tells KRMG the plea deal includes life sentences for the murder and robbery charges, and 7 years for the burglary charge, all sentences to be served concurrently.
In Oklahoma, a life sentence is considered to be 45 years; murder and robbery with a firearm convictions require the prisoner to serve 85 percent of the sentence before parole can be considered.
That means Mooney will have to serve just over 38 years before he’s eligible for parole.
Drummond says he’s happy with the outcome of the case.
“If we don’t have to go to trial, and we can get a sentence we believe is justice, we do that,” he told KRMG. “That’s better for the family. They don’t have to sit through the emotion of the trial.”
Mooney will not receive any credit for time served; he’s been in jail since his arrest in December, 2012.
Tucker McGee was seventeen when he murdered sixteen year old JaRay Wilson in Oklahoma. According to court documents Tucker McGee, Cody Godfrey and Caleb Mclemore came across the victim who would be beaten and shot in the head. The sixteen year old body was hidden and remained missing for fourteen months until guilt got the best of Cody Godfrey would would tell police. This teen killer who was proven to have shot the victim in the head would be sentenced to life in prison with no parole for thirty eight years.
Charged in connection with the murder of Weatherford teen, JaRay Wilson, Tucker McGee was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
More than two years after Wilson went missing, her family said they’ve finally gained some closure.
Tucker McGee was 10 days short of turning 18 the day he killed JaRay Wilson in October of 2012. He could have been facing the death penalty, but since he was 17 at the time, he received the maximum sentence of life without parole.
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JaRay Wilson’s mother said she knows exactly how long it’s taken to get to this day.
“Two years, six months, and six days,” said Jara Wilson, JaRay’s mother.
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Wilson’s family and friends wept as the judge sentenced Tucker McGee, but McGee remained stone-faced and emotionless.
“He took everything from us. Everything. Our only child. We’ll never be grandparents. We’ll never get to see her grow up. Know what she could have been,” said Wilson.
For 14 months JaRay’s family searched for their missing daughter.
McGee’s defense attorney said his client was high on K2 and hallucinating when he killed her.
“A lot of people have been messed up on drugs and they didn’t murder someone,” she said.
But in the swift 15 minute sentencing, the judge followed the jury’s recommendation of life without parole.
“JaRay can finally rest in peace. That was the first thing I thought of,” said Jara Wilson.
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As part of his plea agreement in exchange for his testimony against McGee, Cody Godfrey pleaded guilty to Accessory after the Fact Monday. Godfrey admitted to moving JaRay’s body after her murder.
“His testimony was very important to the case. Without his testimony I don’t know if we would have ever found JaRay Wilson,” said prosecutor Angela Marsee.
In January 2014, Godfrey led investigators to the area where Wilson’s body was found buried in a shallow grave. Her skull was cracked, and had what appeared to be a gunshot wound.
“She’s not a victim. She’s a person that deserved way more than she got,” said JaRay’s mother.
Caleb Mclemore was also charged with Accessory after the Fact for his role in the murder. He’s currently serving a 25-year sentence.
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A man who was convicted of killing a Weatherford teen nearly six years ago received a new sentence on Monday.
In 2015, a jury found Tucker McGee guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old JaRay Wilson in October 2012.
Prosecutors say he shot her in the head along a rural county road, and then buried her body the next day with the help of two other teens.
For months, family members searched for clues related to JaRay’s disappearance. Officials say about 14 months after she was reported missing, one of those teenagers came forward and told police what happened to JaRay.
“She’s kind of been treated like trash throughout this whole process. You know, the boys and the manner of and how they treated her. It’s just hard,” Ronette Thiessan, Wilson’s aunt, said during the trial.
It took a jury just two-and-a-half hours to find McGee guilty of murder. They recommended a life without parole sentence.
“To me, he doesn’t deserve to be out. He took her away from us; he deserves to pay for it,” Jara Wilson, JaRay’s mother, told News 4 in 2015.
In April, a judge followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced McGee to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
His original sentence was repealed by a court, so McGee had to be re-sentenced on Monday.
A judge sentenced McGee to life in prison, making him eligible for parole after 38 years behind bars
.Man convicted of killing Weatherford teen re-sentenced
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Henry Laird was seventeen years old when the teen killer from Oklahoma would beat his mother to death. According to prosecutors Henry Laird would attack his mother with a shotgun and would use the barrel of the weapon to strike his mother twenty times causing her death. At trial Henry Laird told the court that he was not responsible for the murder however the jury felt differently and would find the teen killer guilty and sentenced him to life in prison
A jury has given a Tulsa teen life with the possibility of parole after finding him guilty in the murder of his mother. Henry “Hank” Laird was convicted of beating his mother to death with a shotgun on January 22, 2013.
It took jurors less than two hours of deliberations to find him guilty Thursday, and it didn’t take the jury long to decide his punishment.
The death penalty was not an option, so they had to decide between life or life without the possibility of parole. Laird was just 17 when he beat his mother to death, so the defense wanted a life sentence.
The state hoped the harshest punishment.
“The jury has decided to give him mercy, mercy that he did not give to his mother,” said Assistant District Attorney Julie Doss. “But we respect that decision.
“He beat her, if you remember, with the barrel end of a shotgun at least 20 times.”
As the murder weapon was carried out of the courthouse, and the murderer taken back to jail; the case is closed.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean closure for the family: the elderly parents or the sister and brother-in-law of Linda Laird.
“They not only lost Linda, their daughter and their sister, but they also lost Hank, who was a family member too – so they’re overall very sad,” Doss said.
A psychiatrist testified Hank Laird started spiraling out of control when he was 10 years old, just after his father died of a heart attack. Laird told the doctor he blamed his mother for the death, that he thought his mother poisoned his dad.
The doctor said that’s when Laird’s aggression towards his mother began, and was also when his substance abuse began. The psychiatrist said Laird turned to drugs and alcohol so he didn’t have to face his grief.
“It contributed,” said Defense Attorney Greg Graves. “It put him in a situation that none of us would want to be in.”
The doctor said Laird’s drug usage was so severe, it kept his brain from developing like a normal kid. Laird went to multiple treatment facilities but relapsed each time he got home.
The doctor said Laird had a learning disability and had only completed eighth grade.
The state said Linda didn’t discipline her son because she was terrified he’d kill her in a drunken rage. Records show Linda once said she was OK with him tearing up the house because that means he wasn’t beating up on her.
He was drunk the night he killed his mother. a crime he told me he didn’t commit.
Reporter Tess Maune: “Are you sorry for beating your mother to death?” Hank Laird: “I didn’t do it.” Reporter Tess Maune: “Who did it?” Hank Laird: “I believe Josiah Sklar did it.”
Josiah Sklar was in the house night Linda was murdered. He testified against Laird and has been charged with accessory after the fact.
The state said Laird never implicated Sklar was involved, even when had the chance during his police interrogation.
That interview was played in court and Laird told detectives he remembered beating his mother, but didn’t mean to kill her.
“Here’s someone that, even after being convicted, after sitting and listening to his own statement where he implicated himself very strongly, he’s still wanting to say he didn’t do it,” said Assistant District Attorney Julie Doss.
“That’s a danger.”
Prosecutor Alisa Hopkins said Laird had been running from what he did for two years, but that running stopped with the murder conviction and life sentence.”Linda Laird caught up with him today,” Hopkins said.
Laird will be eligible for parole in 38 years. He’ll be 57 years old, one year older than his mom was when he killed her.
“Certainly at this point, our hope is that he will get some type of rehabilitation so that when he is released back, if that ever happens, he won’t pose a threat,” said Julie Doss, assistant DA.
Montoya Harris was fourteen years old when she stabbed a thirteen year old girl to death. According to court documents Montoya Harris confronted the victim about stealing her boyfriend and soon after a fight broke out where the victim was stabbed ten times dying from her injuries. This teen killer would plead no contest to murder and was initially sentenced to the juvenile program however her behavior would see her sent to the adult system where she would be sentenced to life in prison.
Tulsa County teenage killer Montoya Harris will stay in the adult prison system, the state Court of Criminal Appeals ruled Thursday.
The state’s high court for criminal matters denied a request to let Harris return to the juvenile system to complete a treatment program.
Harris pleaded no contest in February 2009 to the first-degree murder of Sydney Dailey, 13, whom she stabbed 10 times on March 15, 2008. Harris was 14 and pregnant at the time of the killing.
Both girls attended Madison Middle School in Tulsa.
Harris said she stabbed Sydney with a knife after they talked about Sydney’s “allegedly stealing” Harris’ boyfriend, a police officer said.
Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough found Harris guilty in 2009 and imposed a life term for murder, with the understanding that as a youthful offender she would not serve anywhere near that amount of time if she complied with a treatment plan.
As a youthful offender, she could not have been kept in Office of Juvenile Affairs custody beyond her 20th birthday, which is April 12, 2013.
Kellough denied one request to bridge Harris into the adult system after multiple reports of misconduct while in OJA custody, but the judge granted a later request.
Harris entered Department of Corrections custody Feb. 1. She is housed at the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center in McLoud.
Her attorney, Robert Jackson, asked the appeals court during oral arguments Thursday to find that the district judge abused his discretion in sending Harris to the adult system.
He said she still has a year to complete the program as a juvenile.
But Harris “doesn’t seem to get it,” Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Gary Lumpkin said.
Jackson disagreed, saying, “She’s made progress.”
Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Julie Doss said Harris was given “chance after chance” in the juvenile system before she was ordered to serve a life sentence as an adult.
Doss said Harris threatened another female inmate the same way she threatened Sydney and chalked up numerous rule violations.
Doss said that even if Harris were returned to the juvenile system, it wouldn’t make a difference because she does not have the capacity for empathy for her victim.
Harris showed a chronic pattern of defying authority while in the juvenile system, Doss said, creating disruptions that interfered with others’ ability to have their treatment programs work for them.
“The only way to treat her now is to bridge her and keep her away from others,” she said.
Harris filed a lawsuit in November in federal court in Oklahoma City against the Central Oklahoma Juvenile Detention Center, employee Kizell Brown and the state Office of Juvenile Affairs, alleging that Brown had raped her while he was employed at the Tecumseh facility as a youth guidance specialist.
Brown has been charged with two counts of second-degree rape in Pottawatomie County in connection with assaults that are alleged to have taken place in May 2010, court records indicate.
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