Kevin Reiley Apperson
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Cushing ex-convict with a criminal record in three counties has been jailed on $30,000 bail pending a March 23 preliminary hearing on a charge of hitting a co-worker in the head with a pipe wrench at the Cimarron Valley Trailer Park in Cushing.
Due to his extensive criminal record, Kevin Reiley Apperson, 49, could be given a prison term from 20 years to life if convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Apperson was arrested by Cushing Police Officer Cody Carpenter at 8:08 pm on Jan. 5 in the 1700 block of N. Little in Cushing, court records show.
The Cushing officer had been sent to the trailer park about 35 minutes earlier on a report of a disturbance in progress, according to his affidavit.
Sgt. Carson Watts made contact with the suspect who was leaving in a truck, while Officer Carpenter checked on the victim, the affidavit said.
The victim, whose girlfriend had called 911, “had bloodied hands and a severe head wound that was gushing blood,” the affidavit said.
He attempted “to walk towards me, but stumbled and almost fell to the ground,” the Cushing officer wrote in his affidavit.
The victim was transported to the Cushing hospital with severe head wounds, the affidavit said.
The victim told the officer that Apperson was in front of his residence when he got home, got out of his vehicle, and hit him twice over the head with a pipe wrench, the affidavit alleged.
The victim said they were arguing because the victim’s girlfriend had a protective order against Apperson’s friend — that Apperson was trying to get her to drop, the affidavit alleged.
“Apperson stated (the victim) was messaging him stating he would beat him up. Apperson continued and stated he was having a sexual relationship with (the victim’s girlfriend) behind (the victim’s) back,” the affidavit alleged.
“Apperson stated he hit (the victim) with a wrench he had in his truck because he was scared,” of the victim, the affidavit alleged. Asked why he got out of his vehicle with a wrench, “Apperson stated he did so because he was scared,” the affidavit alleged.
“Apperson took me to the bed of his truck. Apperson opened the tailgate and grabbed a rusty crescent wrench from the front of the bed…Apperson stated after he hit (the victim) with it, he put it in the bed of his truck and shut the tailgate,” the affidavit alleged.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, Apperson was previously convicted of:
* assault with intent to commit a felony, which was amended from the original charge of rape in Norman in Cleveland County in 2003, for which he received a 30-year prison term and served about 13 years prior to his release in July of 2020;
* delivery of marijuana and possessing the drug in jail in Payne County in 1997, for which he received two concurrent 30-year prison term in 1997 and served about four years prior to his parole in May of 2001;
* second-degree burglary and possessing a stolen vehicle in Payne County in 1996, for which he received two concurrent 30-year prison terms in 1997 and served about four years prior to his parole in May 2001;
* second-degree burglary in Ponca City in Kay County in 1996, for which he received a seven-year prison term consecutive to the following sentence;
* being a felon in possession of a gun and having a stolen credit card in Payne County in 1996, for which he received concurrent prison terms of 10 years and 20 years that he apparently served between 1997 and 2012;
* possession of methamphetamine and auto burglary in Payne County in 1994, for which he initially received probation that was revoked in 1997 to concurrent prison terms of 10 years and seven years.
