OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – 5 males are being charged within the lethal hostage scenario on the Oklahoma County Jail again in March.
On March 27, detention officer Daniel Misquez was taken hostage by inmates.
Officers say 34-year-old Curtis Williams held the detention officer at knifepoint as different inmates had been set free of their jail cells.
The inmates complained about circumstances on the jail, saying they haven’t any operating water and should not being fed.
Finally, Williams was shot and killed by an Oklahoma Metropolis police officer.
Now, 32-year-old Gregory Jordan and 22-year-old Justin Leslie are charged with first diploma homicide.
In keeping with court docket paperwork, Jordan and Williams had been the 2 “most important leaders of the riot.”
As well as, 23-year-old Darius Nice, 43-year-old Marlon Craft and 27-year-old Charles Johnson had been all charged with second-degree homicide.
Investigators say Nice used jailers’ keys to let inmates out of their cells.
They are saying Craft positioned liquid on the entrance of entry doorways to the pod to trigger slick surfaces, making it tough for officers to enter the pod.
The hostage scenario was all dwell streamed to social media in actual time. Investigators now consider it was Johnson who used the detention officer’s telephone and social media account to take action.
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Leslie was additionally charged with assault and battery utilizing a harmful weapon.
Jail surveillance video confirmed him circling the detention officer, who was mendacity the other way up on a desk, and stabbing him a number of instances within the bottom with a makeshift knife.
4 of the lads stay within the Oklahoma County Jail.
Charles Johnson was transferred to state jail.
