Man demanded $300K before killing 4 Chinese nationals at Oklahoma pot farm, prosecutors say
A man accused of killing four people at an illegal Oklahoma marijuana farm last month opened fire after demanding employees give him $300,000 as a return for his “investment” in the illegal operation, prosecutors said.
A man accused of killing four people at an illegal Oklahoma marijuana farm last month opened fire after demanding employees give him $300,000 as a return for his “investment” in the illegal operation, prosecutors said.
Wu Chen, 45, was formally charged Friday with four counts of first-degree felony murder and one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon in the Nov. 20 attack at the Kingfisher County farm.
He is accused of killing Chinese nationals Quirong Lin, Chen He Chun, Chen He Qiang and Fang Hui Lee and injuring Yi Fei Lin, according to charging documents.
Four dead following reported Oklahoma hostage situationNov. 21, 202202:03A filing requesting Chen be held on no bond revealed how he demanded $300,000 from employees at the farm and “within minutes” opened fire, killing the four, wounding the fifth victim, and “took shots at, but missed, a sixth.”
“That fact that it could not be handed over on a moment’s notice was what precipitated the mass murder,” the filing said.
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