2 Okla. teens held in fatal stabbing of 5 relatives

Jane Onyanga-Omara and Doug Stanglin | USA TODAY

Show Caption Hide Caption 5 Found Stabbed to Death in Oklahoma Home Police in suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma say five family members were found stabbed to death in their home Wednesday night. Two teenage suspects were taken into custody. (July 23)

Two teenage boys were taken into custody early Thursday after running from the back door of a house in eastern Oklahoma where five of their relatives were found stabbed to death, according to police.

Sgt. Thomas Cooper, of the Broken Arrow Police Department, said officers had been summoned to the residence late Wednesday by a "open 911 call," in which no one spoke after dialing the emergency line.

After tracing the call, police sent units to the home in the leafy bedroom community of Broken Arrow, southeast of Tulsa.

Police said the teens — ages 16 and 18 — were seen running from the house and were tracked down to a small park area behind the house about an hour later by a K-9 unit.

A 13-year-old girl inside was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where she underwent surgery She was later listed in serious condition, the Tulsa World reports. A 2-year-old child, who was unharmed, was placed in protective custody.

Cooper said the victims and the two suspects were members of the same family, and that all of them lived at the home.

Broken Arrow, with a population of about 100,000 people, is on the Arkansas River just southeast of Tulsa, and the home is in a well-established neighborhood surrounded on three sides by the Indian Springs Country Club.

Property records show the home sold for $245,000 in 2007, and Tulsa County tax records show it was among the larger and most-expensive homes on the block.

Helen Hoagland, who has lived in the subdivision for 42 years, said two parents and five children lived in the home, and said she would sometimes see the mother walking with several children. Hoagland said the children were home-schooled and that the mother kept them on a tight leash.

Hoagland said the children used to help decorate the neighborhood's entrance each Christmas but they stopped taking part a few years ago.

"We just have a great neighborhood. That's just crazy; it's absolutely crazy," Hoagland said as she watched police work the crime scene before dawn.

Contributing: Associated Press