Two people dead and two children rescued from hostage situation

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Two children are harmless contiguous aft constabulary said a hostage concern near their parent dead. Police said they changeable to decease the antheral who took the children and their parent hostage.

Police rescued the 2 children precocious this day astatine the Seminole Apartments.

Right now, the children are protective custody.

Tulsa Police said past nighttime they responded to an altercation successful the aforesaid portion wherever today's hostage concern happened. They said officers connected a antithetic displacement responded to that call.

Officers said past nighttime they recovered immoderate slug casings from that apartment. That incidental is inactive nether investigation. Then, contiguous astatine astir 1:00 p.m. , the fishy called police.

"He was conscionable benignant of rambling successful wide and being nonsensical," Capt. Meulenberg with Tulsa Police said.

Officers were dispatched to the scene.

When they arrived, they recovered the suspect, a 28-year-old woman, and 2 tiny children inside. No names person been released yet.

“We did marque interaction with the fishy who was leaning retired of a model and was yelling astatine the officers, but thing specific, conscionable benignant of much rants of paranoia,” Meulenberg said.

When officers asked him to nonstop the children out, constabulary said the fishy pointed astatine the backmost door, that's erstwhile the seven-year-old came out.

“The lad had a ligature astir his neck, which was fundamentally similar a compartment telephone charging cord astir his cervix and similar a strangulation benignant configuration. He besides had 1 of his hands bound and tied up astatine 1 point, helium told the officers that helium was tied up down his back,” Meulenberg said.

Police said the lad told them the antheral and his parent had been arguing each night.

“He conveyed to the officers that his parent was assaulted and besides bound, and perchance strangled," Meulenberg said.

Police asked the fishy to fto the small miss spell arsenic well.

“He said that helium was not going to fto this four-year-old miss spell due to the fact that helium thought that we would fundamentally bash him harm should helium bash that," Meulenberg said.

Police said they kept talking to the suspect.

"At immoderate point, helium pushed the lifeless assemblage of the 28-year-old pistillate down the stairs, we judge her to beryllium the childrens' mother," Meulenberg said.

When that happened constabulary said they called successful their peculiar operations squad to rescue the girl.

"Officers fundamentally did a dynamic, they rushed up the stairs, they had a confrontation with the suspect. Shots were fired by us. We neutralized the suspect. We did rescue the four-year-old and rushed her retired of the location. She besides had a ligature astir her cervix and she was intelligibly bound astatine 1 constituent successful time."

Police are looking into t helium narration betwixt the fishy and the woman. The officers progressive with shooting the fishy person been placed connected administrative leave.

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