Hughes county teen to stand trial in stabbing death

HOLDENVILLE – A Hughes County teenager was ordered to stand trial in the stabbing death of a Holdenville man, prosecutor Linda Evans said today.

Jerrell Dion Wright, 17, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of Joseph Turner Tiger, 46.

Evans said Wright’s preliminary hearing lasted most of Wednesday. The teenager remains jailed without bail and is scheduled to return to court Feb. 3

Prosecutors think the two had an argument, then Wright went outside and began throwing bricks through the windows of Tiger's home. Tiger stepped outside and began call Wright racist names, an arrest affidavit states.

Wright confessed to authorities that he walked back into the house, picked up a knife from the kitchen counter and went into the back bedroom where he stabbed Tiger twice, the affidavit states.

Wright and his mother, Katrina Whitfield, lived with Tiger at his home.

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