State authorities are investigating after a shooting left two dead and two critically injured over the weekend in Fairview, a city of about 2,700 people an hour-and-half northwest of Oklahoma City in Major County.
Around 12:45 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 16, officers with the Fairview Police Department responded to a house near Sylvia St. and East State Road, according to a news release from the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
When police arrived, they said they found four people with gunshot wounds. A 49-year-old man and 17-year-old girl were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the news release. A 44-year-old woman and 13-year-old boy were also transported to a local hospital in critical condition.
As of Sunday morning, the two were still alive but hospitalized, OSBI spokesman Hunter McKee said.
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Fairview police would not comment on the shooting but instead deferred to the OSBI, which is now the lead agency in the investigation. McKee clarified to The Oklahoman that no other people were involved in the incident and that the investigation was ongoing.
"We just want to make it clear that the public is safe," McKee said Sunday. "We're still piecing together what led up to the shooting at the house, but no one else was involved."
McKee said that, due to the ages of the minors who were shot, he was uncertain when the OSBI would be releasing the identities of the victims. But he suggested more updates might be provided at a possible news conference later in the week.
"The OSBI appreciates the Fairview Police Department, Major County Sheriff's Office, and Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for their assistance with this investigation," the agency said in its statement Sunday.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Fairview, Oklahoma, shooting leaves two dead, two injured; OSBI investigating
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