Monday, March 4, 2024
OSU community honors student who died on campus in hit-and-run accident Gabriel Trevino Staff Reporter The sound from Oklahoma State’s campus stopped for one minute. A group of about 50 Cowboys and Cowgirls gathered to memorialize one of their own. On Feb. 22, a hit-and-run occurred on the north side of Oklahoma State’s campus around 10 a.m. A truck struck Gabrielle Long, an OSU student, at Monroe Street and Cantwell Avenue. She died at Stillwater Medical her on her 19th birthday. The suspect was taken into custody and pleaded not guilty with a future court date set. On Saturday, members of the community gathered between Theta Pond and Willard Hall to pay respects to Long. To begin, a moment of silence turned the area quiet for some time. Expressions showed those in attendance’s emotions, though. Tears streamed, people who knew Long mourned and sympathy shared. Then, a line formed. A guestbook sat on a table, with more pictures of Long on it, where people wrote messages. Hugs were then shared when they were done. “I don’t know why,” a woman said as she left the table. Those who weren’t in line em-
Gabriel Trevino About 50 students gathered Saturday evening to honor Gabrielle Long, an OSU student, who was killed in a hit-and-run on Feb. 22.
braced each other. Two dogs from Pete’s Pet Posse were there for others to calm their emotions. Most in attendance dressed in pink or other bright colors, like yellow. Fam-
ily members described Long as a bright, ceived its needed $15,000 in three days. shining person. Her funeral took place on Thursday. Some were those who donated to the family’s GoFundMe to pay for news.ed@ocolly.com Long’s funeral cost. The fundraiser re-
Stillwater man charged in sexual assault incident on campus port. Since the 20-yearEmily McCaslin O’Colly Contributor old woman was attacked
Myah Shoemake President Dr. Kayse Shrum (second from left), along with several other notable figures attended the 75th anniversary of Nancy Randolph Davis’ enrollment on Thursday.
OSU honors 75th anniversary of Nancy Randolph Davis’s enrollment Raynee Howell Staff Reporter
from OSU, known as Oklahoma A&M at the time. Her father thought highly of the program and had a vision for his daughter to attend the university some day. “He said, ‘You know they’re going to start letting Negros go A young Nancy Randolph, there one day,’” Calvin Davis, during the Great Depression, lived Nancy Randolph Davis’s son, with her family on a farm. said. “He said, ‘Nancy you will go To maintain food and resources, the family listened to the there one day, and whatever Papa Randolph said, he believed.’” Ag Report, which was released Calvin Davis, during the
Nancy Randolph Davis celebration on Thursday, brought the room full of students, alumni, faculty and friends of the family through an emotional retelling of the adversities his mother had faced and overcame. From watching an ambulance refuse to take her grandpa to the hospital at 8 years old, to being forced to sit outside of the classroom when she attended OSU. See Anniversary on 7
A Stillwater man was charged Tuesday with sexually groping a woman on Feb. 16 while she was walking home from a bar nearby Washington Street. Jacob Colton Dobson, 26, faces one count of sexual battery. During a court appearance Tuesday, Judge Katherine Thomas set his bail at $100,000. Dobson remained in the Payne County Detention Center on Wednesday, according to jail records. Dobson’s preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. He was taken into custody at the McDonalds at 920 W. Sixth Ave. on Feb. 22 at 9:03 p.m. He was identified based on what he was seen wearing on Washington Street the night of the attack, according to a probable cause affidavit by Stillwater police Detective Mary Kellison. For 2022, OSU reported 18 cases of rape and 12 of fondling on campus, according to the university’s most recent annual safety re-
nearly two weeks ago, OSU police have reminded students to be careful when walking alone at night. The woman was walking home about 2 a.m. from a private date-party at Outlaws, 501 S. Washington St., according to Kellison. The woman told police she had noticed a man following her but didn’t think anything of it because she thought he was walking home, too. He was parallel to her on the west side of Jefferson Avenue until he followed her into the Zeta Tau Alpha parking lot at 1001 W. University Ave., according to Kellison’s affidavit. The man grabbed the woman from behind and began groping her, she told police. She grabbed him by the neck and screamed for him to get off. He let go and ran south of the Kappa Alpha Order house, 224 S. Jefferson St. She immediately called 911. A witness told police he saw the woman being attacked but the man ran off before he could help. See Incident on 6