Someone gunned down two young mothers in Bache, just outside of McAlester, leaving their families devastated and without answers.
Emily Morgan and Totinika Elix lived in the Oklahoma City area in 2016. Morgan needed to go to McAlester and asked Elix to go with her. They left their children with Elix’s boyfriend.
Colleen McCarty is the Executive Director of Oklahoma Appleseed, a non-profit focused on criminal and juvenile justice.
2 News sat down with her to discuss the what happened on August 26 th .
“One night, Ty and Emily drove out to Bache, which is right outside of McAlester, and it was late at night. We know that they stopped at a McDonalds around 11:30 and that they were in McAlester and we think that they picked up someone and then they drove to this abandoned house outside of McAlester, said McCarty. The next morning, they were both found shot in the head outside of a house underneath a carport,” said McCarty.
Kim Merryman is the mother of Emily Morgan and remembers her daughter as a dynamic child. “She was a single mom, and she had her son when she was 16, and before that, softball was her love, and then Payden became her love after she became a mom.”