A woman has said her daughter and three grandchildren were among seven people found dead at a house in Oklahoma during a search for two missing teenagers and a sex offender.
Janette Mayo said the local sheriff had told her that her daughter Holly Guess, 35, and grandchildren Rylee Elizabeth Allen, 17, Michael James Mayo, 15, and Tiffany Dore Guess, 13, were discovered at the property.
They were apparently found shot dead in various locations on the property, Ms Mayo added.
Authorities previously said they thought the victims also included 14-year-old Ivy Webster, 16-year-old Brittany Brewer and Jesse McFadden – a sex offender the girls were seen travelling with.
The medical examiner needed to confirm the identities but Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said on Monday: “We believe that we have found the persons.”
Officials had issued an amber alert for the missing girls, but it was called off when the bodies were discovered later the same day at the property near the city of Henryetta – 90 miles east of Oklahoma City.
“Brittany was an outgoing person,” her father Nathan Brewer told television station KOTV.
“She was actually selected to be Miss Henryetta coming up in July for the National Miss Pageant in Tulsa, and now she ain’t gonna make it because she’s dead. She’s gone.”
The Oklahoma Sex Offender registry shows a Jesse Lee McFadden, 39, living at the address where the bodies were found.
Oklahoma Department of Corrections prison records show he was convicted of first-degree rape in 2003 and released in October 2020.
Court records show he was scheduled to go on trial on Monday on charges of soliciting sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child sex abuse images.
Henryetta Public Schools said in a post on its website: “At this time we are all grieving over the tragedy of the loss of several of our students.
“Our hearts are hurting, and we have considered what would be best for our students in the coming days. We will have school, and this will be an extremely difficult day.”
Gerald Davidson, a spokesman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said an individual on Monday told the violent crime task force in the Okmulgee County District Attorney’s office that the two girls might be in the presence of someone at the property on Holly Road just outside of Henryetta.
Sheriff’s deputies went to the scene twice. The first time, they did not make contact with anyone, but on their second visit they discovered evidence that led them to the bodies, he added.
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