Quadruple Oklahoma murder: Person of interest arrested in Florida

The person of interest in the “violent” quadruple murder that left four men mutilated in an Oklahoma river has been arrested by the police.

The Four close friends who mysteriously disappeared in Oklahoma were killed in a “violent” shooting at a scrapyard, dismembered, and thrown in a river, according to police.

Salvage yard owner Joe Kennedy was detained on Tuesday in Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, in a car reported stolen to the Okmulgee County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, according to Police Chief Joe Prentice.

Prentice verified on Monday that the bodies recovered from the Deep Fork River, southeast of Okmulgee, were to Mark Chastain, 32; Billy Chastain, 30; Alex Stephens, 29; and Mike Sparks, 32, who went missing overnight last Monday.

Investigators uncovered no evidence during a check of a salvage yard, but they did find signs of a “violent occurrence” on an adjoining property, according to Prentice.

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No charges were initially filed against Kennedy but investigators were looking to speak to him again before he was reported missing on Saturday, Prentice said. On Monday, police found Kennedy’s blue PT Cruiser abandoned behind a business in Morris, Oklahoma, Prentice said in an update on Facebook.

Prentice claimed a warrant for his arrest in connection with a 2012 shooting was issued with a $500,000 bond.

Police have not yet named any suspects in the quadruple homicide.

“The murder investigation is ongoing and investigators continue to follow leads every day. Additional information will be relayed when it is available,” Prentice said.

According to authorities, the males, who were close friends, were thought to have left Billy Chastain’s home in Okmulgee on Sunday night riding bicycles.

Investigators believe that the men planned to commit some kind of criminal act when they left the residence, according to a witness who told police they were invited to go with the men to “hit a lick big enough for all of them,” Prentice said.

However, authorities say they have no idea what the men planned to do or where they meant to do it.

The men’s causes of death are still unknown, however authorities confirmed that all four had gunshot wounds and that their bodies were dismembered before being tossed into the river.

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