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Oct. 9John Hruby files a missing gun report with Duncan Police Department. The report states John Hruby’s 9mm pistol was stolen from his car’s center console.
John, Tinker and Katherine Hruby were last seen together by community members, ac-cording to tips and calls made to Duncan police.
Alan Joseph Hruby went to his parents’ home at 1217 Bent Tree in Duncan and shot his mother, sister and father with a 9mm pistol he’d stolen from his father.
Oct. 12A photo is posted to Alan Hruby’s Instagram account. The photo says it was taken at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Dallas, where the OU-Texas game took place.
Oct. 138:51 a.m.: The Hruby family’s housekeeper dis-covers the bodies, which were “cold and not breathing.”
Morning: Alan Hruby arrives at the crime scene after he received a phone call about the deaths. Alan Hruby was “crying and wailing” at the scene, Duncan Police Chief Danny Ford said.
Alan Hruby is detained at the Stephens County Jail on unrelated charges pertaining to stolen checks and a probation violation.
Oct. 14During an interview with investigators, Alan Hruby confesses to killing his parents and sister with the 9mm pistol that he stole from his father.
Oct. 15Morning: A Lawton TV station reports Alan Hruby has confessed to killing his parents and sister. Duncan police later confirm Alan Hruby’s confession.
Around 2 p.m.: Alan Hruby is charged with three counts of first degree murder at his arraignment for the deaths of his father, mother and sister. Ford holds a press conference afterward to brief media on the incident.
When Alan Hruby shot his father, John Hruby fell to the ground saying
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DUNCAN – When OU student Alan Joseph Hruby, 19, entered a Stephens County courtroom wearing an orange jumpsuit and shackles, he glanced to see who was in the court-room — but only once.
Before the judge entered the chambers, Alan Hruby sat with his back to the media and others attend-ing the arraignment. He was tapping his right foot the entire time.
“The defendant is going to be treated as any other defendant,” Judge Jerry W. Herberger said to the media before reminding them to turn off their electronic devices.
After spending the weekend in Dallas for OU-Texas, Alan Hruby spent over a day in custody on unre-lated charges following his parents’ and sister’s deaths. On Wednesday, Alan Hruby was charged with three counts of first-degree murder for their slayings, as well as two counts of knowingly concealing stolen proper-ty during his arraignment hearing at 2 p.m. in Judge Jerry W. Herberger’s courtroom.
Alan Hruby was charged for the
shooting deaths of parents John Hruby, 50, Joy “Tinker” Hruby, 48, and sister Katherine Hruby, 17.
The family’s housekeeper found the bodies and called police around 8:51 a.m. Monday.
Alan Hruby shot his mother in the kitchen of their Duncan home. She fell to the floor, and he shot her a sec-ond time. Hruby then shot his sister once. One hour later, when his father entered the kitchen, he fired again, leaving his father to fall to the ground with one word — “ouch,” according to the probable cause affidavit.
The 9mm pistol and recordings from video surveillance of the house were dumped in a local lake, District Attorney Jason Hicks said.
The pistol and recordings have not been recovered from the lake, Hicks said.
Neighbors did not report hear-ing gunshots, Hicks said. The Daily asked three of the Hruby’s neighbors if they heard anything, but all three neighbors said they didn’t.
LOCATIONS1. Hruby family home2. Stephens County Jail3. University of Oklahoma4. The Ritz-Carlton, Dallas
OU freshman charged Wednesday with murder of his parents, sister
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Homecoming festivities do not come cheap. This year’s budget — which was funded mostly through donations — was over $30,000.
The budget for this year’s homecoming is rough-ly $32,000, according to the Campus Activities Council budget. Of this money, $4,000 is allocated from Student Government Association. The remaining money came from donations from both inside and outside the university.
A large portion of the donations came from the OU Athletic Department and the Lloyd Noble Center, said Chloe Tadlock CAC Homecoming chairperson.
Here’s a break down of some of the homecoming costs:
Event organizers try to bring all students together
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Members of the home-coming executive commit-tee strove to serve as a bind-ing force between Sooners this fall — no matter group affiliations.
In the past, students have thought of as homecom-ing as a primarily greek event, said Chloe Tadlock, Campus Activities Council’s Homecoming chairperson. This year, the homecoming executive committee want-ed to challenge that idea, Tadlock said.
One of homecoming ’s unique aspects is it reaches out to alumni, prospective students, students, facul-ty and staff, said Johnson Truong, the homecoming committee’s vice chairper-son of finance.
When homecoming exec-utives focus on greek organi-zations alone, which include about 20 percent of the uni-versity’s students, it doesn’t do homecoming justice, Tadlock said.
“Homecoming is the en-tire — from top to bottom — S ooner community,” Tadlock said.
Tadlock knew of a student three years ago who attend-ed a homecoming pep rally. When the student couldn’t find an open seat, she ap-proached an event volun-teer, Tadlock said. The vol-unteer told the student that
there wasn’t a specific place where she could sit because she didn’t belong to a greek organization, but that she could sit in the parents’ sec-tion of the rally.
“That to me screams the exact opposite of what we want homecoming to say,” Tadlock said.
The executive council switched the homecom-ing pep rally’s location from the McCasland Field House to the Lloyd Noble Center, Tadlock said.
The field house fit about 4,600 people, and usually about 500 to 1,000 people squeezed in over capacity, Tadlock said.
The move will fit more people comfortably, Tadlock said.
In addition to moving the pep rally to a larger lo-cation, the executive com-mittee also made a uni-fied homecoming logo this year, said Madison Perry, the homecoming commit-tee’s vice chairperson of programming.
In previous years, home-c o m i n g c e n t e r e d o n a theme, Perry said. However, this theme only involved student organizations, es-pecially the greek commu-nity, and didn’t really in-clude alumni who weren’t on campus during the week, said Perry, a business man-agement junior.
Perry hopes the logo will carry through to following homecomings, she said.
To make these changes,
Ta d l o c k a n d t h e o t h e r homecoming executives sought out a diverse group of students to be on the coun-cil, she said.
The executives appointed council members so that no more than half the members are greek students, Tadlock said. The rest are non-greek students that the executives didn’t already know.
So far, the risks in choos-ing a council have paid off, Tadlock said.
“Everything we’ve done is basically challenging pro-cess,” said Truong, a human relations junior. “We went in with a vision of what we wanted to change, and we are doing it right now.”
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Another chapter of the student versus mentor matchup be-tween Bob Stoops and Bill Snyder will be written this week when No. 14 Kansas State rolls in to Norman to take on the No. 11 Sooners.
For six years, Stoops coached under the guidance of Snyder in Manhattan, Kansas. Now, each has established themselves as two of the most respected coaches in the nation.
“Coach Snyder is a great coach,” Stoops said. “Again, I ap-preciated my time with him. I loved the seven years I was there. They were great for me. I worked with great people along with him. It afforded me other opportunities that have led me to here.”
Stoops and the Sooners return home for the first time in a month and will seek revenge from Snyder’s Wildcats who beat Oklahoma the last time they were in Norman.
The No. 6 Sooners were stunned 24-19 in September 2012 after a sub-par performance from quarterback Landry Jones and a stellar performance from Kansas State Heisman finalist, quarterback Collin Klein.
Again, Oklahoma (5-1) will have no room for error when Kansas State (4-1) visits Owen Field.
Over the Sooners’ last two games, things have not gone as smoothly as they had hoped. Sophomore quarterback Trevor Knight and the offense have had difficulties finding a rhythm while the defense has had its own trouble.
“It’s a pretty inexperienced group when you start putting it all together,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “We just need to clean up some communication and some cov-erage stuff.”
Sophomore cornerback Zack Sanchez had his share of mis-communications on coverage errors over the last few weeks but has more than made up for those. Sanchez has recorded five interceptions this season, tied for second in the nation.
As far as the offense is concerned, the problem begins with the offensive line and what offensive senior guard Adam Shead called “execution.” The unit has not been execut-ing well enough to create holes for running backs or to give
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Match puts student against teacherAs OU faces Kansas State, the Sooners will have to communicate
Knight time to find open receivers.When Knight did happen to find an open receiver, it like-
ly was Sterling Shepard, who has had a tremendous season thus far. For the Sooners to have success Saturday, Knight and Shepard will need to connect.
But Shepard isn’t the only wide receiver who has had a solid season so far. Kansas State’s Tyler Lockett has been in-strumental in the Wildcats’ offense this season.
The Preseason All-Big 12 wide receiver ran all over the Oklahoma defense in 2012 and has the skills to do it again, even against a better Sooners defense. On the season, Lockett has 399 yards on 29 receptions and three touchdowns.
Sophomore linebacker Dominique Alexander went to high
school with Lockett and knows how tough it is to cover him. However, Alexander said the focus won’t be on him.
“It’s going to be more about getting a pass rush on the quar-terback, because like I said, he’s a hard man to stop as an indi-vidual,” Alexander said. “Tyler is a great player and he’s going to be hard to stop, but we’re going to be ready for him.”
Oklahoma will have its hands full with all that Kansas State brings to the table. It might come down to who can coach bet-ter: the pupil or the teacher?
The Sooners’ defense swarms a Longhorn during Saturday’s Red River Showdown at the Cotton Bowl. The Sooners defeated the Longhorns 31 to 26 and will face Kansas State on Saturday.
Duncan police believe Alan Hruby committed the crime alone.
Hicks said Alan Hruby said he shot his family so he could be the sole heir to their money. Alan Hruby owed approximately $3,000 to a loan company, and his parents were going to cut Alan Hruby off financially, Hicks said.
“I think the only remorse we’ve seen out of him is that he’s been caught,” Hicks said.
Alan Hruby has been held in Stephens County Jail since he arrived at the crime scene Monday.
Ford said Alan Hruby was “crying and wailing” at the scene.
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Fallin declines request for OU campus debate
The two candidates in Oklahoma’s guber-natorial race won’t be debating each other again before the Nov. 4 election.
Gov. Mary Fallin declined The Daily’s invitation to host a non-partisan debate on OU’s campus. Democratic candidate Joe Dorman accepted the invitation in a press release early Wednesday.
Fallin declined because she and Dorman have already debated each other and that debate can be viewed online or on the OETA station, said Alex Weintz, spokesperson for Fallin’s campaign.
“The governor is going to spend the remainder of this campaign on the road, meeting voters face to face and sharing her plans for the future of Oklahoma,” Weintz said.
Dorman accepted the invitation, saying their one hour-long debate wasn’t enough to discuss all the issues, according to the press release.
“Voters deserve another chance to hear about the important issues facing our state from the two guberna-torial candidates. One debate isn’t enough,” Dorman said in the press release.
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HRUBY: University declines to comment on student’s chargesContinued from page 1 Alan Hruby was held at
Stephens County Jail on stolen check charges and probation violations, which stemmed from an August 2013 felony charge for cred-it card fraud.
According to the 2013 affidavit, Alan Hruby ap-plied for a credit card under grandmother Janis Hruby’s name. He used the Dillards Amer ican E xpress card throughout Europe — spe-cifically in Paris — for a total of $4,891.18.
The Daily contacted Janis Hruby, but a family sponsor declined to comment on her behalf at this time.
Alan Hruby violated pro-bation for the credit card charge over the weekend when he traveled to Dallas a n d st aye d at t h e R i t z -Carlton hotel.
A photo posted to his I n s t a g r a m o n S u n d a y shows a man and a woman r e c l i n i n g o n w h a t a p -p e a r s t o b e a b e d . T h e caption reads : “College wouldn’t be half as great with out these two peach-es. #bestfriends #roomies # c o l l e g e # o u t x # o u #universityofoklahoma.”
John Higgins, University College freshman, l ives on the same floor as Alan Hruby in Headington Hall. Higgins said he’d heard ru-mors about the case.
“I didn’t think he could do something like that,” Higgins said.
G r a y s o n R i c h e y , University College fresh-man, also lived on Alan Hruby’s floor in Headington Hall.
“I’ve seen him around.
To me, he was always quiet. He’s never said anything to me,” Richey said.
Bryan Hinnen, director of operations for Headington Hall, forwarded all ques-tions to OU’s Public Affairs office.
University spokesman Corbin Wallace said he c ou l d n o t c o m m e nt o n the situation because it is an ongoing investigation. Although Wallace issued a statement Tuesday saying the university was monitor-ing the situation to ensure campus safety, he would not comment Wednesday to clarify how the university was ensuring campus safe-ty because “doing so would hamper those efforts.”
Alan Hruby’s next hear-ing is scheduled for Dec. 17. He does not currently have
an attorney for this case.At Wednesday’s press
conference, when asked if the state would seek the death penalty, Hicks said he couldn’t answer at the time because he needed to talk to the family first, but he tends to be “very aggressive” in his prosecutions.
“I think this is a ver y, very heinous and atrocious crime. I think this shows the fact that there was no remorse,” Hicks said. “I think it shows that this kid is an evil person and, quite frankly, I think [the death penalty] is something that’s going to have to be seriously considered.”
D a n a B r a n h a m a n d Justine Alexander contribut-ed to this report.
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District Attorney Jason Hicks talks before the press conference about Alan Hruby on Wednesday at the Stephens County Courthouse in Duncan, Oklahoma. Hruby confessed to killing his parents and younger sister in their Duncan home Thursday.
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two are from Oklahoma and like to do Oklahoma-based films, but that doesn’t mean Hollywood is any more accepting.
“It’s an impossible business to break into,” Robison said. “You know, people just kind of laugh at you. We finally got a break and got to make a couple of movies. The inspiration has been inside of me from the beginning.”
With the Oklahoma film scene steadily growing with ambitious, young directors and creative outlets, like the DeadCENTER Film festival, Twenter expressed the impor-tance for supporting the local film scene.
“The more success Oklahoma films have, the more movies we can make,” Twenter said.
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A Samuel Goldwyn film filled to the brim with love, hate, violence and friendship has been named “Rudderless,” it will open with a much-anticipated debut Friday, Oct. 17.
The film, featured as William H. Macy’s directorial debut, follows the story of Sam, a successful businessman, who drops every-thing and lives on a boat to combat grief from the tragic loss of his son. Sam forms a band to commemorate his son with the music he left behind.
The cast, which includes Billy Crudup, Anton Yelchin, Felicity Huffman and Selena Gomez, is spot on. Among these critically acclaimed actors were cast members casted straight out of Oklahoma a by local casting agent, Chris Friehofer.
The film’s co-writers are Oklahoma na-tives as well. Writers Jeff Robison and Casey Twenter previously dove into the thriller genre with their 2013 film The Jogger, but Rudderless, a comedic drama, has an entire-ly different feel than their previous work.
First, the writers decided to make a film that didn’t require
“Rudderless,” a film written by two native Oklahomans, debuts Friday
a very large budget. Still, finding ways to raise money to even begin making the film is the most difficult challenge.
“The biggest challenge of making anything in the film busi-ness is the financing. You have to go out and do it yourself,” said Twenter.
It took the duo years to find the right people to accommo-date the funding needs of the film. Main actors finally com-
mitted, but the money was even harder to gain. Eventually, Robison and Twenter found people to back up their idea for the movie. Once filming started in Oklahoma, the duo, along with the Oklahoma alumni-based crew, was fairly breezy in comparison.
“Actual shooting was good. The weather was cooperative. Once we rolled film, it was a smooth process,” Twenter said.
The process was a smooth one, but it also required a lot of patience. It took a long time for these two visionaries to turn their dreams into reality, but neither of them lost sight of the true goal, which Robison said manifested in childhood.
”It’s something that I was always interested in. I remember watching certain movies, like the original “King Kong” and the “Wizard of Oz” and I got sucked into it. Then”Star Wars came out, and I was hooked,” Robison said.
It was then, Robison said, that he thought, “Okay, this is what I want to do.”
“When I met [Casey Twenter], he shared a love for it. We started writing together,” Robison said.
But passion isn’t the only driving force in film success. The
“You know, people just kind of laugh at you. We finally
got a break and got to make a couple
of movies. The inspiration has been inside of me from
the beginning”JEFF ROBISON,
RUDDERLESS CO-WRITER
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