Investigators with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are working in conjunction with the Dewey Police Department after a Thursday a murder/suicide occurred in that Washington County town.
Dewey is located approximately 160 miles northwest of Fort Smith.
Officials with the OSBI said the incident started Thursday when the Dewey Police Department and the Washington County Sheriff's Office served a protective order in the 1200 Block of North Choctaw to evict 25-year-old Tyler Gage, who is the husband of the woman who lives in the residence.
Gage left the residence when the protective order was served. However, Gage came back to the residence with a gun late Thursday night. According to the OSBI, Gage then shot and killed 29-year-old Christopher Gilliam.
Gilliam was pronounced dead at the scene. Arbeitman with the OSBI said that Gage then turned the gun on himself and was taken to a Tulsa hospital. Gage died from his self-inflicted gunshot wound at 11:00 a.m. on Friday.
Four children and a woman were in the home during the incident. Neither the women nor the children were harmed.
Officials say this is just the second homicide in th community in the past two years and only the third murder in the community in the past decade.
The OSBI is continuing with their investigation.
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