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Daughter will not be charged in shooting
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John David Luton, first assistant district attorney, said Tuesday afternoon he and Assistant District Attorney Kyle Waters had just reviewed the report on the shooting.
“We have reviewed the report and we believe the shooting was justified, and was in defense of her mother,” Luton said. “No charges will be filed.”
Luton said the case will be closed with “justifiable homicide in defense of another.”
Luton said the shooting death of Keith Arnold Foreman, 47, at about 11 p.m. June 19 was apparently in self defense. He said the sheriff’s report indicated the daughter came home from work about 9:15 p.m. at the residence, seven miles south of Sallisaw and west of U.S. Highway 59, and found her parents embroiled in a domestic dispute.
Luton said the report and photos indicated Foreman had been drinking, and empty beer containers were found around the house. He said the medical examiner’s report has not yet been received.
He said the mother, Shelli, 42, and daughter, Felicia, told investigators that Foreman had ripped a telephone cord out of the wall and had wrapped it around his wife’s neck, and had held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill her “several times.”
The sheriff’s report, Luton said, indicated that when the daughter arrived home the domestic dispute apparently escalated, and Foreman had a .41-caliber special revolver pointed at his wife’s head.
The dispute apparently continued for about two hours, when the daughter got a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson pistol from a bedroom and shot her father once in the upper torso. Luton said the call for help was received by Sequoyah County 9-1-1 at 11:09 p.m. Foreman was dead when deputies arrived.
Luton said he had no information about domestic abuse in the family prior to the shooting.
He said about Foreman, “He was apparently acting out, and it sounded like it escalated.”
On Friday Sheriff Ron Lockhart, after talking to the mother and daughter about the shooting, said he also believed the shooting was in self defense.
“I have no doubt it would have been a double homicide,” if the daughter had not shot in self defense, and “…to save her mother,” Lockhart said.
Graveside services for Keith Foreman were held Monday at Brent Cemetery, south of Sallisaw, under the direction of Agent Funeral Home.
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« JennySmith@yahoo.com wrote on Wednesday, Jul 01 at 04:22 PM »
Crime solved in 59 minutes or less or everyone walks should be their motto!
« chico_stilwell@yahoo.com wrote on Wednesday, Jul 01 at 10:13 AM »
Law Enforcement 101 teaches you to read the whole book before you make judgement on it's ending. This is why things get screwed up and people walk free. I admit that I know Keith and if he was wrong, he was wrong, and you get what's coming to you. My concern is the weakness of the investigation and how quick the call was made. Sounds to me that there needs to be more training in the SO and more request for further investigation from the DA. With no reported history of domestic abuse in the family, what brought this incident on? The cause and effect thing. We sometimes forget the basic questions to ask. Drinking is a cause, not the reason a killing takes place. What happen besides a lot of beer cans laying around to make him want to hold a gun to his wife's head? (ANYONE)
« chico_stilwell@yahoo.com wrote on Wednesday, Jul 01 at 09:59 AM »
I wonder if all the lad results have come in? I wonder if the guns were checked for prints? When did empty beer cans render someone intoxicated. Why no polygraph? Why such a shabby investigation? Who is to blame the DA or the SO?
« susie.weston158@gmail.com wrote on Saturday, Jun 27 at 03:12 PM »
Great decision DA's!!!
« lilbigguy8622@yahoo.com wrote on Thursday, Jun 25 at 06:06 PM »
she did the right thing!!!
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