Cameron J Tyler Fox
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) – A rural Cushing man on probation for attacking a police officer and an inmate has been jailed on $50,000 bail pending his arraignment Tuesday on a felony charge of using a knife to cut his former neighbor’s arm on Thanksgiving Day.
Due to his criminal record, Cameron J. Tyler Fox, 23, could be given a prison term of 10 years to life if convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon after two prior felony convictions.
When Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Miller asked Fox if he stabbed anyone, “he advised yes and that he was protecting himself,” an affidavit alleged.
“I asked him to get the knife he used. Fox then brought me a silver-colored folding knife/multi-tool. Fox then stated, ‘God advised me not to lie and I must tell the whole truth, and that was not the knife.’
“I then asked him about the knife he used, and he then crawled under his trailer and retrieved a red-handled knife. The knife was approximately nine inches long, fixed blade and appeared to be a kitchen steak knife,” the deputy alleged in his affidavit.
At the hospital, the injured man told the deputy “He did get into an argument with Fox and told him several times to leave his property. He advised he did walk towards Fox and all of a sudden Fox stabbed him,” the affidavit alleged.
“It appears that he was either stabbed twice or stabbed once and the knife blade went in his arm and out the opposite side of the arm,” the deputy wrote in his affidavit.
On the Monday after Thanksgiving, in a petition for an emergency protective order against Fox, his ex-neighbor alleged, “Cameron stabbed me with a knife that I didn’t know he had on him. I didn’t have anything in my hands and was not trying to harm him in any way.
“And this is not the first time that he has made threats to me and my family. And he has said that if his wife leaves him that he was going to get out of jail and come to where my new RV park is at and beat me to death and my fiancee and rape her and drag me off into the woods, and make my body disappear to where the cops couldn’t find me or (her).
“I fear for my life and my family’s lives as well.”
According to court records, Fox had been placed on five years’ probation except 120 days in jail on Dec. 1, 2020, for assault and battery on a Cushing police officer on July 24, 2020, and aggravated assault and battery on a prisoner in the Payne County Jail on Aug. 4, 2020. Fox was ordered to take an anger management course, undergo a mental health evaluation and follow any recommendations, as conditions of probation.
