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Water bills getting clearer
City says changes are in response to residents’ complaints KEVIN CANFIELD
Tulsa World
Tulsans can expect their water bills to look different by the end of the year, one of several steps the city is taking to make them easier to understand and to improve the overall billing system. City Finance Director James Wagner said the effort started in the fall after the city began receiving a higher-than-usual number of complaints from residents who said they either could not get through to Customer Care or had extremely long waits. “So TMUA asked us if we could make some adjustments in the way we do things,” Wagner said. The Tulsa Metropolitan Utility Authority, or TMUA, is a seven-member body that oversees the city’s water and sewer system. Wagner’s report to the authority last week shows the city is still
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Tredrick Johnson hugs his son, Dedrick or “D.J.,” who survived a fatal wreck during an OHP pursuit in Tulsa a year ago. Johnson’s sister Lanise Dade and her daughter, Camyea Miller, were killed when a 14-year-old boy fleeing OHP in a stolen truck crashed head-on into them.
Family feels OHP reckless in pursuits
In five-year span, 15 pursuits killed 18 people. Eight weren’t eluding COREY JONES
Tulsa World
A state trooper chased a “possible stolen vehicle” at up to 125 mph into Tulsa on the Broken Arrow Expressway based only on the word of a motorist at a stoplight who had pursued the pickup truck in Coweta. The truck’s driver — a 14-year-old boy — accelerated as Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. Mark Warren first approached in his marked Ford Explorer. Some 20 miles away, a Tulsa family was
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running midday errands in their neighborhood. The fleeing teen soon clipped a vehicle and later another one, weaving through traffic and speeding recklessly through an occupied construction zone. Still, Warren thought he and others could keep chasing and bring about “a safe end” to the pursuit despite seeing the hits and near-misses, according to OHP’s major case file records. But the 13-minute pursuit ended when the truck slammed into the Tulsa MIKE SIMONS, TULSA WORLD FILE family’s SUV on the city’s east side. The fleeing driver exited the wrecked Sil- Law enforcement personnel work the scene of a crash verado and collapsed close by, quickly following a chase involving Oklahoma Highway Patrol detained by Warren. troopers on Feb. 25, 2021, that ended in east Tulsa. Two uninvolved motorists were killed during the pursuit of a Please see PURSUITS, Page A6 stolen vehicle.
Tulsa continues to reach new heights. Our Outlook 2022: A big-city renaissance special section inside looks at the way our city is refining its unique destinations, brightening its dining scene, expanding educational access to higher degrees and flexing its music city muscles. SECTION O
Teen’s case a federal mystery
Fate of alleged driver in double fatality crash is behind federal laws
delinquent past was arrested in connection with a double-fatality vehicle crash in east Tulsa, his fate in the justice system is known to few. While Elias Gabriel Gonzales’ CURTIS KILLMAN name and charges became pubTulsa World lic the moment they were filed Over a year after a 14-year- in state court, such matters are old boy with a troubled juvenile closed to the public in the federal
Biden says Putin “cannot remain in power.” NEWS, PAGE A14 •
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court system, where his juvenile delinquency proceeding is believed to have landed. As such, due to the case combining the McGirt U.S. Supreme Court ruling with federal juvenile justice laws, no public information exists for how Gonzales’ case, if it was ever filed, was resolved.
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