A Locust Grove man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of four people whose bodies were found in a burning home last week in southwest Oklahoma City.
An Oklahoma County judge issued a warrant Monday for David Allen Tyner, 28. According to Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Gary Knight, David Allen Tyner turned himself in to the Mayes County Sheriff’s Office early Tuesday morning.
Hiding his face and with nothing to say, Tyner left the Mayes County Sheriff's Department in Pryor. Investigators say he knew he was a wanted man and gave up.
"He walked in the front door, it was exactly 8:27, walked up to the window and said, 'I'm David Tyner. I understand you guys are here looking for me, I'm here to turn myself in,'" Mayes County Sheriff Frank Cantey said.
"Right now we believe there's more than one person involved, more than just him," said Knight. "We don’t have names available for you on that or a number of people involved."
Right after the murders, police interviewed a fifth person who escaped the home. According to this arrest warrant, "the witness advised a person they know as Hooligan was arguing with one of the victims when the shooting occurred." Police say they later determined Hooligan is Tyner.
"So, we do not know what the motive is and that's another reason we want the tips to keep coming in," Knight said.
The local newspaper in Pryor is also reporting David Tyner is a former Marine who served in Iraq.
Tyner now faces six first-degree murder complaints, but has not been formally charged with any crime.
Two of the females in the home were pregnant, bringing the death toll to six.
One of the two victims identified last week was 22-year-old Brooke Phillips, one of the stars of HBO's "Cathouse" series, a reality show about life at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a brothel near Carson City, Nev. Phillips was a licensed prostitute who was taking time off in Oklahoma because of her pregnancy.
Firefighters were called to the home, 1511 S.W. 56th Street, early last Monday. Firefighters found the four victims inside the burning home, according to a court affidavit.
Autopsies revealed that all four victims died as a result of being shot, the affidavit read.
If you know anything about this case, the Oklahoma City Police Department is still manning the special tip line at 404-297-1200.
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Photo: Brooke Phillips.
Brooke Phillips, a pregnant Nevada brothel worker who appeared in an HBO reality series "Cathouse," and another 22-year-old mom-to-be, had been fatally shot before firefighters discovered their bodies in a burning Oklahoma City home, investigators said last Friday.
Oklahoma City Police Department spokesman Sgt. Gary Knight said Nov. 13 the Medical Examiner's Office determined that Brooke Phillips and Milagrous Barrera — both 22 years old and pregnant — had died of gunshot wounds.
The women were among four victims found in a Nov. 9 blaze. A man and another woman have yet to be identified. Authorities say the fire was deliberately set and are treating the case as a homicide.
Knight said efforts to identify the victims have been slow because the bodies are so badly damaged, adding, "they were severely burned."
Knight said authorities had not identified a suspect.
Phillips had worked at the Moonlite BunnyRanch, a legal brothel near Carson City, Nev. which was featured in an HBO reality series, "Cathouse."
"That's terrible, terrible, terrible. We're sad." said Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch. "It's been the saddest few days of the 54 years at the BunnyRanch."
Police have interviewed Jose Fernando Fierro, the sole survivor of the blaze, but he is not a suspect, his lawyer said Friday.
"It's very lucky," attorney Shawn Jefferson said. "The house was big enough that people could be in different places. I don't think he saw anything."
Fierro had been renting the house for about three months, and he was close friends with two others in the home, Jefferson said. "One of them was lifelong," he said.
Jefferson declined to identify any of the victims or discuss details of what Fierro told police as well as other aspects of the investigation.
Hof described Phillips as "a popular, outgoing, charismatic girl" who was a big part of the HBO series "Cathouse," which followed the lives of the women working in the brothel. Hof said he hired Phillips two years ago after she said she was a big fan of the series and wanted to work at the ranch and be on the show.
He said she had asked to take some time off after she learned she was pregnant, but that she had not told him the identity of the father.
A friend of Phillips, fellow BunnyRanch employee Cami Parker, described her as "a really fun girl" who was excited about her pregnancy.
"I never heard her say anything except positive things. She was always really happy, really upbeat," Parker said. "We used to play Scrabble together. She was so funny. She was always going for the dirty words."
About two dozen messages of condolence had been posted on the BunnyRanch Web site since Phillips' possible death was first reported on Thursday, many from friends and co-workers.
"Everybody's like really upset," Parker said.
