Stillwater double homicide suspect jailed on $10 million bond

   GUTHRIE — The suspect in a Stillwater double homicide — who has not yet been charged in Payne County — has been jailed on $10 million bond on charges of shooting at two Langston University police officers before he was arrested at a relative’s residence on July 28, Logan County court records show.

   Theodore DeMarrio McCloud, 36, of Langston, who has a history of drug, gun and robbery convictions, remains held in the Logan County Jail pending an Oct. 9 court appearance on two counts of shooting with intent to kill two officers in Langston, which is punishable by life in prison.

   McCloud, whose middle name has been listed on some documents as Demarcus, was arrested in Langston at 3:15 am on July 28 — about two hours after police were dispatched to the 200 block of W. Elm Avenue in Stillwater on reports of shots fired, a news release said.

   The homicide victims were identified as Stillwater residents Vanessa Henry, 38, and her brother Andrew Rice, 35, whose wife of five days, Carman Murphy, 34, was wounded in the 1:14 am shooting and taken to the hospital.

   An hour later, at about 2:15 am, “Langston University Police Department (LUPD) Officer Robert King received a request of an attempt to locate a double homicide suspect out of Stillwater, possibly in a red Nissan vehicle in Langston,” Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Agent Kevin Woodward wrote in an affidavit filed in Logan County.

   LUPD Officer Stephen Aufleger was driving a marked patrol car when his passenger, Officer King, spotted the suspect vehicle at a residence that pulled out with no headlights on, the affidavit alleged. When the vehicle stopped in a driveway, “Officer King exited the passenger side of the marked patrol vehicle and ordered the subject to show his hands,” the affidavit alleged.

   “In Officer King’s body camera video, just after the verbal order by Officer King, you hear a gunshot and see a flash from just behind the red Nissan. Officer King moved to the back of his patrol vehicle for cover. In the body camera video, you hear multiple shots.

   “Officer King’s rifle malfunctioned, and he had to switch to his handgun. Officer King shoots several times from behind his patrol vehicle at the suspect,” who ran behind the residence, the affidavit alleged.

   “Officers King and Aufleger secure the area and set up a perimeter. They wait for more units to arrive before proceeding. City of Langston officers, Stillwater Police Department officers, Logan County Sheriff’s Office deputies, and Payne County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived on scene to assist.

   “Officers were able to call the suspect out of the residence and detained him. The suspect was later identified as Theodore DeMarrio McCloud. Officer King identified the suspect as the person who was in the red Nissan and shot at himself and LUPD Officer Aufleger,” the affidavit alleged.

   The residence belonged to a relative of McCloud, who talked to him and then told Deputy Hunt that “the gun was in the laundry room,” where a black Sig Sauer semi-automatic handgun, which matched the description of the weapon in the Stillwater double homicide was found inside the clothes dryer, the affidavit alleged.

   After Langston University Police Chief Curtis Stewart asked the state crime bureau to investigate the shooting with LUPD officers, OSBI Agent Eli Turley processed the patrol car that had been hit multiple times with projectiles from McCloud, the affidavit alleged. The patrol car “had been struck in the hood, passenger front fender, front and rear passenger doors and roof; one projectile was recovered from the rear passenger door,” the affidavit alleged.

   The Stillwater double homicide case remains under investigation, according to a news release from Stillwater Police Lt. Terry Low, who said, “Charges will be presented to the Payne County District Attorney’s Office for review.” By press time, no charges had yet been filed in the fatal shooting on July 28.

   According to Oklahoma County court records and the state Department of Corrections, McCloud had been released from prison about two years ago after serving almost 13 years of a 15-year sentence for conjoint robbery in 2008 after his probation was revoked in 2010, when he was also given four concurrent 15-year sentences for being a felon with a firearm along with having the gun’s serial number altered in 2010, being a felon on another occasion in 2010 with a firearm, and possessing cocaine with intent to distribute in 2008, all in Oklahoma City.