US sex offender fatally shot six, then killed himself, official says

Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice mentioned on Wednesday that the victims all sustained between one and three wounds to the top.

He mentioned that Jesse McFadden, 39, shot himself.

“The evidence is that Jesse McFadden murdered six people and then killed himself. Beyond that, I don’t know what his thought process was,” Prentice mentioned.

“I’m not going to express a theory because I follow the evidence, and I don’t have any evidence about what the motive was.”

The capturing occurred as a sequence of ominous textual content messages — despatched by McFadden to his younger accuser hours earlier than his trial was to start on felony fees of soliciting and possessing photographs of kid intercourse abuse — urged that he blamed the girl for ending his “great life” and that he was decided to not return to jail.

According to display grabs of the messages, forwarded to KOKI in Tulsa by the now 23-year-old girl McFadden allegedly groomed from jail, he mentioned he was having success at a advertising job and “making great money.”

“Now it’s all gone,” he texted. “I told you I wouldn’t go back.”

“This is all on you for continuing this,” he completed.

A solicitation conviction can imply a 10-year-sentence; the pornography cost might imply 20 years behind bars.

Muskogee County District Attorney Larry Edwards mentioned the younger girl shared the textual content messages with him as properly.

“They are tragic. Let’s just say that. He more or less blames her for what he did and that’s the part I really have the problem with, because she didn’t do anything wrong,” Edwards instructed Tulsa-based KOTV.

Authorities started a search after McFadden failed to look at his long-delayed jury trial on Monday in Muskogee County.

His physique was later found alongside along with his spouse, her son and daughters, and two different teenagers who had been visiting the household over the weekend.

Now members of the family of the victims are asking why McFadden, sentenced to twenty years in 2003 for first-degree rape within the sexual assault of a 17-year-old, was freed three years early, partly for good habits, regardless of dealing with new fees that he used a contraband cellular phone in 2016 to commerce nude photographs with the girl, then 16.

He was launched in 2020 after 16 years and 9 months, despite the fact that the costs might ship him again to jail for a few years if convicted.

“And they rushed him out of prison. How?” requested Mayo.

She mentioned she was instructed that her daughter and her grandchildren, Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17; Michael James Mayo, 15; and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, had been all shot to loss of life.

“Oklahoma failed to protect families. And because of that my children – my daughter and my grandchildren – are all gone,” Mayo instructed The Associated Press.

“I’ve lost my daughter and my grandchildren and I’m never going to get to see ’em, never going to get to hold them, and it’s killing me.”

Justin Webster, who mentioned he allowed his 14-year-old Ivy Webster to affix a sleepover on the McFadden dwelling not understanding something concerning the man’s previous, raised related issues about McFadden’s launch.

“To get to save some other children, to make a change is what I want to do,” Webster instructed The AP throughout a tearful interview Tuesday in Henryetta, expressing a dedication to “tell Ivy’s story and our story and get our government officials and everybody to start speaking up loud and keeping those pedophiles in jail.”

“There needs to be repercussions and somebody needs to be held accountable. They let a monster out. They did this,” Webster mentioned.

A spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Wednesday on why McFadden was launched regardless of dealing with new felony fees.

Prosecutors objected to any early launch from jail, noting that he tied a 17-year-old’s arms and ft to bedposts, lower her shirt off and raped her at knifepoint.

At one level, he threatened to make use of the knife on her if she “did not shut up,” the information present.

The circumstances have alarmed Republican state Rep. Justin Humphrey, who chairs his chamber’s Criminal Judiciary Committee.

He instructed The AP in a textual content that he is working with one other lawmaker on laws that might “stop tragedies of this nature from occurring again.”

He mentioned the hassle additionally will contain attempting to find out how an individual might commit intercourse crimes in jail and be launched on good habits, and the way McFadden was in a position to keep in touch with minors whereas on intercourse offender supervision.

Court information present McFadden was charged with the brand new crimes in 2017 after the younger girl’s relative alerted authorities.

Set free in October 2020, he was arrested the subsequent month after which launched on $25,000 bond pending the trial, which was repeatedly delayed, partly as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.

McFadden married Holly Guess in May 2022; what she knew of his report is not clear. Mayo mentioned the household did not find out about her son-in-law’s felony historical past till just a few months in the past.

“He lied to my daughter, and he convinced her it was all just a huge mistake,” mentioned Mayo, of Westville.

“He was very standoffish, generally very quiet, but he kept my daughter and the kids basically under lock and key. He had to know where they were at all times, which sent red flags up.”

According to Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice, the seven our bodies had been discovered on the property the place McFadden lived close to Henryetta, a city of about 6,000 about 90 miles (145 kilometres) east of Oklahoma City.

The lifeless our bodies included the 2 teenagers who had been reported as lacking and at risk — Webster, 14, and Brittany Brewer, 16.

Brittany Brewer’s father confirmed that his daughter was among the many lifeless. At a vigil Monday evening, Nathan Brewer mentioned “It’s just a parent’s worst nightmare, and I’m living it.”