Cherokee County, OK -  Cherokee County killing of Edgar Scott - s300
SHOTGUN BLAST IN CHEST KILLS TAHLEQUAH MAN


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Clipping found in Scrapbook no date.  Son of Dorothy Samuels and 
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       Cherokee County killing of Edgar Scott 

SHOTGUN BLAST IN CHEST KILLS TAHLEQUAH MAN

     Tahlequah-A Tahlequah Man was found shot to death early Sunday in a
house 10 miles east of here.
     The Highway Patrol said Edgar Scott, 30, apparently died of a shotgun
wound in the chest.
     Cherokee County deputies went to the home after police in Pryor and
Tahlequah received telephone calls saying there had been a shooting.
     The OHP said officers were told that a man who shot Scott left the
scene in a van.
     The van was later spotted at a residence near the Cherokee-Mayes County
line.  Cherokee County officers and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
agents converged on the scene and arrested a man identified as Joe Robert
Spencer, 28, of Tahlequah, the OHP said.
     Spencer reportedly offered no resistance to the arrest.  He was being
held Sunday in the Cherokee County Jail here pending charges, the patrol
reported.