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Inset: Grant Wilson (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation). Background: The home in Poteau, Oklahoma, where Wilson allegedly murdered his twin sister and her toddler daughter (KHBS).
In a shocking incident, a man from Oklahoma is accused of driving to his twin sister’s residence, entering the home, and fatally shooting her and her young daughter before escaping within a mere four minutes.
Grant Wilson, aged 31, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the tragic deaths of Gabrielle Wilson and her 17-month-old daughter in Poteau, a town located in eastern Oklahoma, according to a statement from the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation on Facebook.
As detailed in a probable cause affidavit, obtained by Law&Crime, deputies from the LeFlore County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched around 4 p.m. on Saturday to a residence off Old Darby Road following a report of cardiac arrest. Upon their arrival, paramedics informed the officers that the situation involved a shooting.
Inside the house, authorities discovered Gabrielle Wilson lying on her back with a gunshot wound to her chin, and she was declared deceased at the scene. Investigators noted the presence of multiple silver-colored shell casings scattered near her body.
The officers described seeing blood spatter on the floor and extending high up the wall behind her, illustrating the violence of the act.
Deputies went into a bedroom, where they found the toddler girl, who has not been publicly identified. She suffered a gunshot wound to the head and had a slug in her hair, the affidavit stated.
The twins’ father arrived on the scene and told cops his son had a “history of violent arguments and physical altercations” with Gabrielle Wilson, police said. He also said Grant Wilson allegedly owned the same caliber weapon used in the slayings.
Cops reviewed security footage from a neighbor that allegedly showed Grant Wilson pull up to his twin’s house in his gray Honda Accord at 9 a.m. Saturday. He left in his car at 9:04 a.m., cops said.
Investigators put out an alert for the suspect vehicle. Traffic cameras picked up his license plate around 11:30 a.m. Sunday just south of Atlanta’s airport, which is some 700 miles away from the crime scene. Cops tried to pull the suspect over but he allegedly led them on a brief pursuit. Officers stopped the vehicle and took him into custody.
Inside the car were two .40 caliber Glock handguns, which were consistent with the casings at the murder scene, cops said.
Grant Wilson is in jail in Georgia awaiting extradition back to Oklahoma.
“This was a senseless crime,” Hunter McKee, public information manager for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, told local ABC affiliate KHBS. “It’s been a heartbreaking story so far.”