TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Police Department arrested a man they say is wanted in connection with a woman's death Wednesday morning.
After a short standoff at an apartment complex near 81st Street and Mingo, police arrested 28-year-old Isaias Torres, Jr. on Sunday afternoon on a warrant for the homicide.
Lt. Brandon Watkins tells 2 News it all started with a little bit of a chaotic scene. He says they responded to the call around 5:50 a.m. on Wednesday near 41st Street and 145th East Avenue where they found the victim, 32-year-old Monica Deleon, with multiple cut wounds and bruising.
About a mile away from that home, police found a car partially submerged. Watkins says Torres Jr. wrecked the car into the pond and then had an altercation with Deleon. At that point, he left her at the scene of the car. Watkins says Torres Jr. then went to his father's house.
“His father came. They picked the victim up and took her back to his house," he said. "Then the father and suspect ended up getting into a fight and they called the mother of the suspect who came to the scene, saw the victim wasn’t doing well and called EMSA at that time.”
Deleon died before she could make it to a hospital. Watkins says the two were dating.
Police say Torres Jr. ran away from the home before first responders arrived and he was on the run until Sunday afternoon.
Lt. Watkins told 2 News police were set up watching an apartment complex near 81st and Mingo where they believe he was Sunday and when Torres Jr. left that apartment, that’s when the standoff happened.
“He got into a car and there was a short standoff but he was able to be taken into custody without issue,” he said.
Watkins says the standoff didn’t last long but it did take some convincing for him to give up.
Torres Jr. is charged with first-degree murder.
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