WELEETKA, Okla. — Authorities released a sketch Friday of a “person of interest” investigators want to interview about the slayings of two girls along an eastern Oklahoma country road.
Jessica Brown, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said the man was seen standing near a white pickup truck about the time and place the youngsters were shot to death Sunday afternoon. He was described as an American Indian, about 6 feet tall, with black hair and a ponytail. He was driving a white Ford or Chevrolet single-cab pickup with chrome stripping and an Oklahoma license tag. “We just want to talk to him,” she said. “We think he might have seen something to resolve the case.”
Friends and relatives attended funeral services for the girls Friday. Services for Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, took place at the First Baptist Church in Dewar. The one for Skyla Whitaker, 11, was held at the First Baptist Church in Henryetta.
Investigators say they have no explanation for why the girls were gunned down near the small town of Weleetka, a working-class community of 1,000 people, 70 miles south of Tulsa. The Associated Press
