TULSA, Okla. — A little after midnight on Feb. 24 Tulsa Police Department responded to an apartment near 15th and Peoria and found 50-year-old Chandra Cole stabbed to death inside.
Officers had a suspect, Dilan Newberry, later arrested by the Cushing Police Department. He is now charged in Cole's death.
Detective Brandon Watkins told 2 News they immediately suspected Newberry.
"The investigation centered on her boyfriend almost immediately, and there was quite a bit of video surveillance in the area, and we found that the boyfriend was heading out of town toward Cushing and found out that he had family in Cushing," Watkins said. "We contacted Cushing PD and asked them to drive by the family's house, and they found him and arrested him inside.”
TPD's homicide detectives interviewed and arrested Newberry for first-degree murder. The Tulsa County DA filed a first degree murder charge on Feb. 26th.
Watkins said Newberry had a domestic violence past and was recently released from prison in June of 2023.
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