By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a rural Cushing man accused of holding a kitchen knife toward his ex-girlfriend before stabbing it in the wall next to her and telling her later that she would be “signing her death certificate, maybe two” if she left, according to a two-count charge filed last week.
Due to his criminal record, John David Cross, 29, could be given a prison term of four years to life if convicted of domestic assault with a dangerous weapon. Cross could be given a six-month jail term if convicted of threatening a violent act.
His ex-girlfriend, with whom he was then living on S. Schlegel, obtained an emergency protective order against him ten days later, court records show.
In her EPO petition, she wrote that on Dec. 10, 2021, “I told him I was seeing someone and that I had had this guy around the girls a couple times.
“He asked me again if the girls had been around this guy, and I said yes. That’s when he pulled a knife out and held it at me,” she alleged.
“When I told him to put the knife down and not in front of my children, he then pushed me into the bedroom. That’s when I screamed for my oldest daughter.
“My kids were at the door screaming for me. He backed me into the bathroom and said that no other man was to be around his kids.
“He lifted the knife like he was going to stab me, but stabbed the wall right beside me,” she alleged in her EPO petition.
“After finally calming down, his (relative) came up to talk, and he said that if I left the driveway that ‘I would be signing a death certificate, maybe even two.
“When I confronted him about him threatening me, he said he didn’t say that and my (older daughter) said exactly what he said about the death certificates stuff,” she alleged in her EPO petition.
Two days later, her younger daughter saw a knife “and asked me if her daddy hurt me with it,” she wrote in her EPO petition.
“The officer told me today that he was going to call DHS,” her EPO petition said.
Court records show that Cross had been placed on five years of probation in 2013 for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in 2011 and larceny of copper in 2012, both in Payne County, along with grand larceny in 2012 in Lincoln County, court records show.
