Two dead, seven hurt in shooting rampage
A US teenager went on a shooting spree in eastern Oklahoma that left two people dead and at least seven wounded.
The rampage took place over a 30-mile area in a string of small communities in eastern Oklahoma.
Daniel H Fears was taken into custody after crashing his pickup truck near a police road block.
Fears, aged 18, is being held at the Sequoyah County jail.
The violence erupted at about 5pm in Sallisaw after Fears was confronted by a neighbour for reckless driving, says Kym Koch, for the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation.
"A man got on to him for driving erratically because he said he almost hit some kids," Ms Koch said.
Sequoyah County authorities say Fears broke into the nearby home of his grandfather where he allegedly obtained the gun used in the shooting. Assistant District Attorney Lynne Anderson says Patsy and Elvie Wells lived across the street from Fears' grandfather, and went to the house because they also wanted to discuss Fears' driving.
Patsy Wells apparently knocked on the door then turned to walk away when no-one answered. Ms Anderson says the woman was then shot dead and her husband critically wounded.
Ms Koch says Fears also shot the first man who had scolded him and Ms Anderson says he shot two people who were leaving a house around the corner. She identified the victims as Greg Caughman and his two-year-old daughter. Both are in good condition at a Sallisaw hospital.
Fears then got into his pickup and headed east, Ms Koch says. He next stopped at a car dealership on the highway and shot a woman from Fort Smith, Arkansas. Salesman Jim Nunn, of Muskogee, was also injured. Fears then continued driving east, shooting randomly at passing vehicles and cars, she says.
