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Court records show prosecutors refiled a first-degree murder charge this week against 27-year-old Michelle Millikin. She's accused of of fatally stabbing 59-year-old Gary Bailey back in 2011 at a home on South 50th West Avenue.
Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum, left, listens as Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan speaks during a press conference, Thursday, May 18, 2017, in Tulsa, Okla., about the not guilty verdict in Tulsa police office Betty Jo Shelby's manslaughter trial. A jury on Wednesday acquitted Shelby, a white Oklahoma police officer who says she fired out of fear last year, when she killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man with his hands held above his head.
Elliott Williams, 37, was taken to the Tulsa Jail in October 2011 after being arrested in Owasso on an obstruction complaint. A video of Williams' last 51 hours alive shows him lying on his back on the floor in a cell in the jail's medical unit, occasionally trying unsuccessfully to reach food and water that had been left near him.
At one Oklahoma jail, African-American employees were designated with a racially offensive term, a former sheriff admitted in court on Tuesday. An Oklahoma sheriff admitted that staff in his jail referred to black employees as "n*gronoids," according to bombshell testimony in a Tulsa courthouse today.
As the county puts the finishing touches on two new general population jail pods we get some surprising news: They aren't needed, at least not right now. Tulsa County voters approved a 15-year extension of a 0.26 percent sales tax April 1, 2014, to fund the new pods and two others dedicated to prisoners with mental health issues.
Tulsa County voters will have at least three primary races to decide June 28 but those contests will involve only two incumbents. District 2 County Commissioner Karen Keith faces challenger Deanna Vincent in a Democrat primary while Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado goes against Luke Sherman and Russell Crow in the Republican primary.