Tulsa Ties Homicide Record With Death Of Second Shooting Victim

Sunday, November 20th 2016, 3:36 pm

By: News On 6

A second victim has died following a Friday night shooting at the Holiday Motel in Tulsa, according to Sergeant Dave Walker, Homicide. Police have not been able to notify family for either victim, so they are not releasing names.

They have identified a suspect in the deaths: James Mahdavi. If you have any information on him, you're asked to call police.

Just before 9:25 p.m. Friday, November 18, 2016, officers were called to the Holiday Motel in the 3200 block of West Charles Page Boulevard. They arrived and found a 51-year-old homeless man with a gunshot wound to the head lying on the ground outside the motel. He died at a Tulsa hospital early Saturday.

The second shooting victim was found in a motel room according to Sgt. Walker. He says it appears that man was the intended victim. That man has since died.

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Sgt. Walker believes the shooter walked up to the motel from a nearby field, shot the first man outside the motel and then went over to a nearby room and shot the second victim through the window. That victim was also taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.

With the second death, Tulsa has tied its record for the most ever homicides in one year.

If you can help police with this crime, call Crime Stoppers at 918-596-COPS.