Alverey Terrell Braxton.
According to the negro, the rifle went off by itself.
I for one believe him, and feel he should be exonerated of all charges.
Investigators used forensic tools to charge a McAlester man with first-degree murder following a Monday night shooting death of a woman.
Alverey Terrell Braxton, 24, of McAlester, was charged Wednesday with felony murder in the first degree, felony possession of firearms after conviction, and felony committing a felony with a firearm with defaced ID number, according to documents filed by the Office of District 18 District Attorney Chuck Sullivan.
According to a probable cause affidavit prepared by Pittsburg County Sheriff Deputy Det. Randy Hass, the deputy responded Monday evening to the McAlester Regional Health Center for a report of a gunshot victim.
Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris identified the woman as 39-year-old Amanda Parham-Lee, of McAlester, who was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Braxton was being held Wednesday in the Pittsburg County Jail on $1,000,000 bond after being charged in the death.
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Hass wrote in the affidavit that after reading Braxton his Miranda warning, he was told by Braxton the two were driving around in Parham’s vehicle and were in an argument.
Braxton told Hass there was a .308-caliber deer rifle in the vehicle and that Parham has moved the rile from the front seat to the back seat of the car and the rifle accidentally went off and struck the woman in the chest and that he never touched the rifle, the affidavit states.
Amanda Parham-Lee.