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Tulsa police say shootings may have been revenge

On Facebook, one used racial epithet prior to shootings

By Channing Joseph andManny Fernandez

 |  New York Times  

  April 09, 2012

Two men were arrested Sunday in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa’s black community, and police said one of the suspects may have been trying to avenge his father’s shooting two years ago by a black man. Police identified both suspects as white, while all five victims in the rampage early Friday were black.

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