The person named as an individual of curiosity within the grisly murders of 4 Oklahoma males who have been reported lacking final week earlier than being discovered shot and dismembered in a close-by river had prior convictions for violent crime.
State data present that Joseph Lloyd Kennedy II — the proprietor of a salvage yard the place the victims’ cellphones final pinged — is a convicted felon serving a 10-year suspended sentence for assault and battery.
In line with a report by Information on 6, the 2013 conviction stems from a confrontation between Kennedy and 6 intruders who broke into his enterprise, A&A Auto Salvage, in 2012. Kennedy fired on the would-be burglars, wounding one.
He's now an individual of curiosity within the murders of Mark Chastain, 32, his brother Billy Chastain, 30, Mike Sparks, 32, and Alex Stevens, 29, whose stays have been recovered from the Deep Fork River over the weekend.
“We imagine the lads deliberate to commit some form of prison act once they left the resident on West sixth Road,” Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice mentioned at a information convention Monday.
After a Friday search of a neighboring scrap yard revealed blood proof of a “violent occasion,” police interviewed Kennedy, however didn't arrest him.
He has since disappeared and police imagine he could also be suicidal, Prentice mentioned.
”Mr. Kennedy is an individual of curiosity that we wish to speak to [again],” the chief added, noting Prentice was not a suspect.
Okmulgee police didn't instantly reply to a request for a remark Tuesday.
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