Family Of Shooting Victim Relieved Tulsa Man Behind Bars

When Tulsa police arrested robbery suspect Greg Carter recently, not many people in Tulsa probably took notice, but one family found it a cause for celebration.

Carter was put on trial for murdering their loved one, Cookie Sherman. And, even though a jury found him not guilty, Cookie's family never stopped hoping he would end up behind bars.

Cookie Sherman's family is glad Greg Carter is sitting inside this jail. They never believed his story about shooting Cookie accidentally, even if the jury did. They had faith, that eventually, his choices would catch up with him and he would go away, so they could finally have some peace and move on.

Cookie Sherman's mom shows me mementos she has of her 21-year-old daughter Cookie. Cookie was the mother of 10-month-old twin girls, a 2-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son.

She and Greg Carter had been dating for a few months when she was shot in the head, and he fled to Texas.

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Police brought him back to stand trial. At that trial, Carter told the jury the gun was under the mattress, and it accidentally went off while he and Cookie were on the bed.

The jury acquitted him. and Carter was released from jail.

"If you do something accidentally, you sit there and try to explain it, but, why would you run?" asked Gloria Calvert, the shooting victim's mother.

Gloria and her sister each took in two of Cookie's children, but they've had a hard time moving forward, since no one was ever held accountable for taking Cookie's life.

"We don't know how to grieve. We wanted to put it behind us but didn't know how because we felt we got an injustice," she said.

Then, they saw on the news recently, Tulsa police were looking for Carter for eight robberies committed in June of this year. Police say he robbed three Dollar General stores, two Little Caesars, a Family Dollar, a Kwik Stop and a Patricia's lingerie store.

When he was caught recently, Cookie's family felt their prayers had been answered.

"That's how good God is. Just let him handle things, and everything will come to light," said Gloria Calvert, Cookie Sherman's mother.

They hope justice is served, but for them, there is a hole in their hearts and lives that can never be filled.

"It's just no way around it, that hole is going to be there and as the kids get older, and ask questions, that hole just opens back up," Gloria said.

Carter is being held on $400,000 bond. He's only charged at this point. He has not been convicted.