Publish on Dec. 28, 2021 in the Tulsa World
A second 13-year-old boy in less than a week has been killed in a shooting, this one early Monday near 61st Street and Peoria Avenue, Tulsa police said.
Officers who responded to a shooting call about 4:15 a.m. Monday found the young teenager lying on the ground at the front entrance of the Savanna Landing apartment complex at 1111 E. 60th St. The boy died later at a hospital.
Other complex residents said they heard multiple gunshots, and police started searching for anyone who might have witnessed the shooting, police said in a news release.
Just five days earlier, a 13-year-old boy was shot multiple times at Parkview Terrace apartments, 5948 S. Santa Fe Ave.
The two shootings were the fourth and fifth teenage homicide victims in Tulsa this year and the city’s 60th and 61st homicide victims overall in 2021.
In 2019, the city of Tulsa recorded three homicides of people 18 years old or younger involving firearms; that number grew to nine in 2020.
While details on the most recent shooting are scarce, the investigation into last week’s shooting has already led to a federal murder charge.
Christian Harrison, 19, is charged in the federal Northern District of Oklahoma with first degree-murder in the Parkview Terrace shooting, which happened about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Harrison is a Seminole Nation citizen, making the case subject to federal jurisdiction due to the Supreme Court’s McGirt ruling.
The victim in the Parkview Terrace case, identified in an affidavit only as B.W., died after being taken to a hospital.
Officers interviewed the victim’s brother, who said B.W. was shot after an argument, according to the affidavit.
The victim’s brother said he was arguing with a woman and that Harrison then started arguing with the victim’s brother. B.W. later joined the two men, and Harrison then pulled out a gun, according to the affidavit.
B.W.’s brother asked Harrison if he was going to use the gun, and Harrison said yes and reportedly shot at the victim and his brother about seven times. B.W. was struck at least twice.
The victim’s brother and an uninvolved bystander identified Harrison as the shooter, according to the affidavit.
Tulsa County jail records showed that Harrison had not been arrested as of Monday evening.