Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said Wednesday that the victims all sustained between one and three wounds to the head. He said that Jesse McFadden, 39, shot himself.
Authorities identified the man as Jesse McFadden, who was serving a 20-year prison sentence for rape. Officers found the bodies of McFadden, his wife, her son and daughters, and two other teens visiting the family.
A convicted sex offender this week fatally shot his wife and her three children in their Oklahoma home -- as well as two teenage girls who there were for a sleepover -- before killing himself, police said Wednesday, accounting for the bodies' discovery days earlier.
McFadden had spent 16 years in prison for 2003 rape conviction and was scheduled to appear in court for his trial Monday on charges of soliciting child porn.
An Oklahoma sex offender who was released from prison early shot his wife, her three children and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free in the first place. Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said that the
Jesse McFadden shot his wife, her three children and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free as his trial on new sex charges loomed.
Oklahoma police say Jesse McFadden, a convicted sex offender, shot and killed his wife, her three children, and two teens before turning the gun on himself.