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Authorities test fire guns in girls' slayings
WELEETKA — More than three dozen guns from the Weleetka area were test fired over the weekend as authorities worked to narrow their leads into the June 8 slayings of two girls north of town.
Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said some 60 letters were sent out to registered owners of .40-caliber handguns, asking them to voluntarily submit their weapons for testing on Saturday and Sunday at the Okfuskee County Courthouse at Okemah.
Brown said 40 of those owners showed up with their guns, which were fired outside the courthouse.
She said about five owners contacted the OSBI to say they no longer owned the weapons, although they did provide the names of the new owners.
“We’ll be checking on them,” Brown said, as well as the 15 or so registered gun owners who did not show up for the test firings.
The fact that the OSBI is looking for a .40-cailber handgun is the newest revelation into the murders of Skyla Jade Whitaker, 11, and Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13.
Both were shot several times and left for dead on County Line Road, about four miles northeast of Weleetka.
Two guns were used in the killings, though authorities never would identify the caliber used until now.
Brown would not identify the other caliber of bullet which was used in the slayings.