Broken Arrow, Okla.: Eight people were found dead Thursday in a burning Tulsa-area house in what was being investigated as multiple homicides, police said. The fire was reported Thursday in a quiet residential area of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 13 miles southeast of Tulsa.
Broken Arrow police said that although the fire and the deaths were being investigated as homicides, they did not believe an immediate threat to the public existed.
Police spokesman Ethan Hutchins said the scene was complex “with a lot of moving parts,” so no other information was being released immediately. Witnesses told police that a family of eight had lived in the house, two adults and six children, but the bodies have not been positively identified, Hutchins said.
Catelin Powers said she was driving with her children nearby when she saw a column of smoke near her house, so she drove past to investigate. “When I got closer to the house, I saw smoke pouring out from the very top of the house, which looked like maybe the attic,” she said.
