Lawyers Are Victims in Two Okla. Home Invasions; One Feels Sorry For Perpetrators
Police in Tulsa, Okla., are investigating two home invasions in two weeks’ time in which the victims were lawyers and good friends.
In both cases the robbers entered through unlocked doors, police told the Tulsa World. One of the victims, criminal defense lawyer Rabon Martin, was beaten with a gun and knocked out of his wheelchair, but he told News9.com that he feels for the perpetrators.
“That this is the way their life turned out, what did you do? ‘I hit people with a gun.’ This is not the way you want your life to go,” Martin told the television station.
Martin and his daughter were robbed Tuesday by two men who walked in through an open door, News9.com says. Robbers took money, a gun and two laptop computers. The story reports that Martin has terminal cancer.
The other victim, lawyer Stephen Rodolf, told the Tulsa World that Martin is a good friend. Rodolf, who lives less than a mile away, was robbed June 20 by masked armed robbers who entered his home through an open garage. The gunmen tied up Rodolf and two guests and took “a substantial amount of money and 11 guns—several of which were assault weapons,” the Tulsa World says.
Police told the newspaper that the two cases appear to be crimes of opportunity. There is no evidence linking the home invasions, but police are still investigating possible connections, the story says.
