Police investigate possible murder-suicide in Oklahoma City
Authorities are investigating what they believe to be a murder-suicide in northwest Oklahoma City.
Shortly after 11:50 p.m. Sunday, officers with the Oklahoma City Police Department responded to a call regarding a home near NW 38 and Key Place.
Police said they found the body of Carla Dawn Evans, 59, who appeared to have been beaten to death, inside the home.
About 12:30 a.m. Monday, police officers also were notified by Oklahoma Highway Patrol that a motorcycle had crashed into a cable barrier on Interstate 44, east of N Western Ave. The rider, pronounced dead at the scene, was identified as Ernest Harlow, 61.
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Police said Harlow had sent a text message to a family member, “indicating he had killed the female and was going to take his own life,” according to a news release from the department.
Oklahoma City police Sgt. Gary Knight said investigators consider Evans' and Harlow's deaths to be a murder-suicide, but he encouraged anyone with more information on the case to contact the Homicide Tip-Line at 405-297-1200.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Police investigating possible murder-suicide in OKC early Monday
