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2nd Oklahoma Murder Suspect Arrested in Arizona

Posted/updated on: August 24, 2015 at 4:26 am
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oklahomaLONGVIEW — A second East Texas man is being held in connection with the death of an Oklahoma man after what police say was a drug deal gone bad. According to the Longview News-Journal, William Earl Garrett II, 26, Longview, was held in an Arizona jail before being extradited to Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to police there. Garrett was wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the July death of Chazz Holly, 28, Talala, Oklahoma, according to Tulsa police.

Sidney Aaron Randall, 19, Gilmer, was also wanted on a first-degree murder warrant and was taken into police custody Wednesday, although Gregg County authorities were unable to say where Randall was arrested or what charge he was held on.

Garrett; Randall; Vernon Lee-Mountel Smith, 27, of Tulsa; and another man bound, gagged and placed Holly in the covered bed of his father’s pickup after a deal to sell the truck for drugs went bad, according to Tulsa police. Smith was arrested earlier and charged with second-degree murder.



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