Nearby farmer worried after quadruple homicide at Oklahoma marijuana grow

He said since they started building the operation and moved in a few years ago, they had a feeling nothing good would come out of it.

SCENE ALL DAY. WELL, ABBY, ZACH, IT STARTED AS A HOSTAGE SITUATION LAST NIGHT. NOW, WHEN POLICE GOT HERE AND LOOKED JUST BEHIND THIS CRIME SCENE TAPE AT A MARIJUANA FARM, THEY FOUND FOUR PEOPLE DEAD, ONE INJURED, AND NO SUSPECT IN SIGHT. THEY’RE ALL THEY ALL KNOW EACH OTHER, DON’T KNOW IF THEY’RE RELATED. THOSE WERE COWORKERS, BUT CERTAINLY THESE INDIVIDUALS OR WE BELIEVE ALL FAMILIAR WITH EACH OTHER, FIVE VICTIMS, FOUR DEAD AND ONE FLOWN TO AN OKLAHOMA CITY HOSPITAL ALL AFTER A SHOOTING OSBI SAYS MEN AND WOMEN WERE AMONG THE VICTIMS. THEY HAVEN’T RELEASED THEIR NAMES OR AGES, INVESTED. GATORS SAY THE SUSPECT WHO KILLED THEM HAS NOT BEEN CAUGHT AT THIS POINT. WE HAVE A SUSPECT THAT IN MIND, WE HAVE NO INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION AT THIS POINT. THE QUADRUPLE HOMICIDE HAPPENED SOMEWHERE ON WHAT INVESTIGATORS SAY IS AROUND TEN ACRES OF LAND. THEY DID NOT CLARIFY WHERE IT TOOK PLACE. THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A MARIJUANA GROW OPERATION. OUR PART OF IT IN TERMS OF THE SHOOTING INVESTIGATION IS THE SCENE ITSELF IS ABOUT TO WRAP UP, BE IN IS HERE HOW COLUMBIA OF NARCOTICS THEY’RE GOING TO TRANSITION OVER AND AND CONDUCT WHATEVER WORK THEY WILL DO AT THIS POINT FORWARD. OBM WILL BE WORKING TO DETERMINE IF THE GROW OPERATION WAS LICENSED AND LEGAL. THERE’S DIFFERENT HOUSING UNITS AROUND. IT APPEARS THAT THERE’S PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THE GROUNDS HERE AND WORK HERE. AND OSBI DOES NOT BELIEVE THE SUSPECT IS IN THIS AREA. THEY SAY THEY’VE LOOKED ON THE GROUND BY HELICOPTER AND WITH DRONES, BUT THEY DO SAY THAT THEY HAVE A SUSPECT IN MIND. REPORTING LIVE IN KINGFISHER COUNTY, ALYSE JONES KOCO 5 NEWS. OH, MY GOODNESS. ELISE, JUST JUST HORRIBLE. AND SO MANY QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. THIS HAS ROCKED THAT RURAL AREA AND THE SMALL TOWNS NEARBY. KOCO ALEXANDRA GREGG WILLIAMS NOW CONTINUING OUR TEAM COVERAGE AND ALEX IS LIVE NOW. ALEX, YOU SPOKE WITH THE LAND OWNERS THAT ARE NEAR THIS MARIJUANA GROW. YES, ABBY AND ZACH, I SPOKE WITH A CATTLE FARMER WHO SAYS HIS LAND IS ALL AROUND HERE, AROUND THE MARIJUANA FARM. AND HE SAYS WHENEVER THEY BEGAN THE OPERATION AND MOVED IN JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, HE KNEW NOTHING GOOD WOULD COME OF IT. EVER SINCE THEY PASSED THAT LAW, I WAS AFRAID THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN. CATTLE FARMER DAVID BRYAN OWNS LAND SURROUNDING THE MARIJUANA GROW OPERATION IN LACEY AND SAYS SINCE THE OPERATION BEGAN, THEY’VE BEEN WORRIED. A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SCARED OF IT REALLY. AND WE COULDN’T BE BECAUSE WE FARMED ALL AROUND AND WE HAD TO KIND OF GO. BUT I’VE HAD PEOPLE TELL ME THAT EVEN LIKE GRANDMOTHER, HE SAYS THE LAND WAS SOLD TWO YEARS AGO, VERY. SINISTER CONTACT. I MEAN, WHEN THEY’RE VERY PRIVATE, YOU CAN GET THEM TO WEIGH EVERYTHING THAT HAD A GATE. THEY KEPT CLOSED ALL THE TIME UNLESS THEY WERE COMING OR LEAVING. BUT IT JUST YEAH, I NEVER HAD A GOOD FEELING ABOUT IT, HE SAYS. AN ARMED GUARD OUTSIDE THE BUILDINGS, ADDED TO THE UNEASY FEELING AS OUTRAGE. I MEAN, IT WAS NO, NOBODY OBVIOUSLY WANTED. I MEAN, AND UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS WHAT WE WERE AFRAID OF. THE COMMUNITY ALL SHARED THE SAME FRUSTRATION WHEN THEY LEARNED YEARS AGO THERE WOULD BE A MARIJUANA GROW OPERATION IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. WE. PEOPLE WOULD HAVE FORESTALLED THIS BECAUSE THE STATE WASN’T READY TO TO DEAL WITH THIS. AND AND THAT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS. AND TO EVEN KNOW THAT AS WE KNOW, THE SUSPECT HAS NOT BEEN CAUGHT AND HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED. THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS I HAVE SPOKEN TO SAY THAT THEY’RE GOING TO REMAIN WORRIED AND CONCER

Nearby farmer worried after quadruple homicide at Oklahoma marijuana grow

He said since they started building the operation and moved in a few years ago, they had a feeling nothing good would come out of it.

A nearby farmer is worried after a quadruple homicide at an Oklahoma marijuana grow.He said since they started building the operation and moved in a few years ago, they had a feeling nothing good would come out of it.”Ever since they passed that law, I was afraid this was going to happen,” said David Bryan, the farmer.| MORE | Law enforcement investigating quadruple homicide in Kingfisher CountyBryan, a cattle farmer, owns the land surrounding the marijuana grow operation and said since the operation began, they’ve been worried.”A lot of people were scared of it really and we couldn’t because we farmed all around but I’ve had people tell me they didn’t like driving by there,” Bryan said.He said the land was sold two years ago.”Very sinister, very private. You couldn’t get them to wave or anything. They had a gate they kept closed all the time. Unless they were coming or leaving. But yeah, I never had a good feeling about it,” Bryan said. He said an armed guard outside the buildings added to the uneasy feeling.”It was outrage. I mean nobody honestly wanted that but unfortunately, this is what we were afraid of,” Bryan said.The community all shared the same frustration when they learned years ago there would be a marijuana grow operation in their neighborhood.

KINGFISHER COUNTY, Okla. —

A nearby farmer is worried after a quadruple homicide at an Oklahoma marijuana grow.

He said since they started building the operation and moved in a few years ago, they had a feeling nothing good would come out of it.

“Ever since they passed that law, I was afraid this was going to happen,” said David Bryan, the farmer.

| MORE | Law enforcement investigating quadruple homicide in Kingfisher County

Bryan, a cattle farmer, owns the land surrounding the marijuana grow operation and said since the operation began, they’ve been worried.

“A lot of people were scared of it really and we couldn’t because we farmed all around but I’ve had people tell me they didn’t like driving by there,” Bryan said.

He said the land was sold two years ago.

“Very sinister, very private. You couldn’t get them to wave or anything. They had a gate they kept closed all the time. Unless they were coming or leaving. But yeah, I never had a good feeling about it,” Bryan said.

He said an armed guard outside the buildings added to the uneasy feeling.

“It was outrage. I mean nobody honestly wanted that but unfortunately, this is what we were afraid of,” Bryan said.

The community all shared the same frustration when they learned years ago there would be a marijuana grow operation in their neighborhood.

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