Woman sought in motel room slaying

A 27-year-old woman was being sought by police Thursday in connection with a fatal motel shooting in southeast Oklahoma City.

Ashley Nicole Tookalo is wanted on a murder complaint in the death of Mark Anthony Harjo, 32, of Holdenville.

Harjo was found April 6 inside a room at the Executive Inn. He appeared to have been shot to death, police reported.

A witness told police Tookalo was inside the motel room when the shooting took place. Police reported Harjo was shot during an altercation inside the room with an unidentified male. The witness said Tookalo fled the scene with the unidentified male.

Police were told Tookalo may have had something to do with a "set up" resulting in the shooting, according to a court affidavit filed Thursday in Oklahoma County District Court.

Tookalo has been to prison in the past for credit card and drug offenses. Records show she has lived in Anadarko.

Fugitive recaptured after 37 years on the run

A fugitive who escaped an Oklahoma prison in 1981 was arrested Thursday by the U.S. Marshals Service after investigators found him living under an alias in Stephen Michael Paris

Houston.

Stephen Michael Paris, 58, escaped from the Jess Dunn Correctional Center in Muskogee when he was 22 years old. U.S. Marshals from Oklahoma City and Houston arrested him Thursday at a Houston office.

Paris had made the Oklahoma Department of Corrections “Most Wanted” list, the Marshals Service reports.

U.S. Marshals investigators took on the case about six weeks ago, and investigators discovered an obituary of Paris’s mother, which listed a son by the name Stephen Michael Chavez. Investigators tracked the name and found that Paris had been living and working under that alias in the Houston area. Paris was arrested without incident, and a fingerprint match confirmed his identity.

Paris had served about 19 months of a nine-year sentence when he escaped. His convictions included possession and distribution of drugs.

Kansas bank robbery suspect may be in OKC

The U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI are on the hunt for a man they said robbed a bank and is thought to be in the Oklahoma City area.

Martin Paris, who has previously spent prison time for attempted murder and two bank robberies, is wanted in connection to a Kansas bank robbery, according to a news release. Martin Paris

Paris, who is about 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and weighs about 160 pounds, was last seen driving a silver Kia Optima with Oklahoma license plate FPK-012.

Authorities said he has red or auburn hair that he may have dyed black.

Anyone who sees Paris is cautioned not to approach him and to call 911 or Crime Stoppers at 235-7300.

Officers who killed suicidal man cleared of wrongdoing

Two Stillwater police officers who fatally shot a suicidal man last month were cleared of wrongdoing and have returned to work.

Officers Micheal Casteel and Trevor Meridith had been on paid administrative leave since March 28.

That night, William John Dominguez, 31, called 911 and told the dispatcher that he was suicidal and had a gun and a knife. He also told the dispatcher he was going to jump into traffic, Stillwater police Capt. Kyle Gibbs said.

Casteel and Meridith found Dominguez in the 1300 block of North Boomer Road. As they approached, he pulled a pistol and a knife from his pants. Both officers shot Dominguez, who died at the scene, he said.

The officers were cleared by the Payne County district attorney's office and an internal review, and have returned to work, Gibbs said.