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NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 01:10 PM Feb 2016

Arraignment Set For Oklahoma Man In Co-Worker's Beheading

OKLAHOMA CITY - A man charged with beheading a co-worker with a butcher knife at an Oklahoma food processing plant is scheduled to formally enter a plea to first-degree murder.

Alton Nolen is set to be arraigned in a Cleveland County courtroom Thursday for the September 2014 attack at the Vaughan Foods plant in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. The 31-year-old Nolen has entered an initial plea of not guilty.

Investigators say Nolen had just been suspended from his job when he walked into the company's administrative office and attacked 54-year-old Colleen Hufford, severing her head. They say he also stabbed another co-worker, who survived, before he was shot by a company executive.

In October, a judge rejected claims that Nolen is mentally impaired and found him competent to stand trial.

http://www.news9.com/story/31197527/arraignment-set-for-oklahoma-man-in-co-workers-beheading

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Arraignment Set For Oklahoma Man In Co-Worker's Beheading (Original Post) NaturalHigh Feb 2016 OP
Wow. He lost his job and cut the lady that fired him, head off! That is some deep hatred inside. Rex Feb 2016 #1
Supposedly he had also committed to a radical form of Islam. NaturalHigh Feb 2016 #2
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
1. Wow. He lost his job and cut the lady that fired him, head off! That is some deep hatred inside.
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 01:18 PM
Feb 2016

WTF!? How does one go from A to B like that!? I guess he figured his life was over with. No job, no life. So sad for the ladies family.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
2. Supposedly he had also committed to a radical form of Islam.
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 02:53 PM
Feb 2016

At least co-workers made statements to that effect.

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