Oklahoma Altercation Turns Deadly
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
An Oklahoma man is dead following an altercation early this morning. Around one-thirty this morning, officers in Adair County received a call that a subject had been shot in the head. Police identified the victim as 19-year-old Richard Crossland Jr. of Muskogee, Oklahoma. Investigators say after interviewing witnesses at the scene. 20-year-old James Ames of Westville, Oklahoma allegedly confessed to the crime. Officers say the two had traded a c-b radio for the gun used in the shooting. During a struggle for the weapon, it discharged, killing Crossland. Ames has been charged with second-degree murder and his bond has been set at $100,000.
