Two Oklahoma City men, LARRY WELCH, 29, and JACOB MADISON, 24, are headed down a familiar but grim path once more, as they have both entered guilty pleas to charges of illegal possession of a firearm following previous felony convictions. The admission of guilt came before a federal court, shoring yet another chapter in their extensive history of criminal activities.
It was on April 7, when Oklahoma City Police Department officers rushed to a reported shooting at an apartment complex. Witnesses at the scene, who had earlier been engaged in an altercation with the suspects, identified Welch and Madison as the shooters. Hiding in a residential backyard shed on a nearby property, both men were apprehended by authorities, with the respective firearms in tow, reported to have been used in the confrontation where, thankfully, no one was injured.
A federal Grand Jury saw fit to indict the two on May 6, underscoring a truth hard and cold—neither man was stranger to the justice system. Welch’s rap sheet is stamped with convictions ranging from possession of a firearm after a felony conviction to feloniously pointing a firearm. Similarly, Madison had faced the gavel for offenses like second-degree burglary and possession of a firearm after a felony conviction, among others, according to public records…