Individual of curiosity in quadruple Oklahoma homicide arrested in Florida, police say

Police have tracked down the individual of curiosity within the “violent” quadruple homicide that left 4 males dismembered in an Oklahoma river. 

On Tuesday, salvage yard proprietor Joe Kennedy was arrested in Daytona Seashore Shores, Florida, in a automobile that was reported stolen to the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Workplace on Monday, Police Chief Joe Prentice introduced on Tuesday. 

On Monday, Prentice confirmed the our bodies of 4 males pulled from the Deep Fork River, southeast of town of Okmulgee, belonged to Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Alex Stephens, 29; and Mike Sparks, 32, who had been reported lacking in a single day final Monday. 

Investigators didn’t uncover any proof throughout a search of a salvage yard, however stated they discovered proof of a “violent occasion” on an adjoining property, Prentice stated. 

No fees had been initially filed towards Kennedy however investigators had been seeking to communicate to him once more earlier than he was reported lacking on Saturday, Prentice stated. On Monday, police discovered Kennedy’s blue PT Cruiser deserted behind a enterprise in Morris, Oklahoma, Prentice stated in an replace on Fb. 

A warrant was issued for his arrest in relation to a 2012 taking pictures with a bond for $500,000, Prentice stated. 

Police haven’t but named any suspects in connection to the quadruple homicide. 

“The homicide investigation is ongoing and investigators proceed to comply with leads every single day. Further info shall be relayed when it’s out there,” Prentice stated.

The lads, shut associates, had been believed to have left Billy Chastain’s residence in Okmulgee on Sunday evening, reportedly on bicycles, based on police. 

Investigators imagine that the boys deliberate to commit some form of felony act once they left the residence, based on a witness who advised police they had been invited to go together with the boys to “hit a lick large enough for all of them,” Prentice stated. 

However police stated they have no idea what the boys deliberate to do, or the place. 

The reason for demise for the boys remains to be pending, however police confirmed all 4 had gunshot wounds and their our bodies had been dismembered earlier than they had been dumped into the river.