'America's Most Wanted' to air show about fugitive in Broken Arrow case

TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- A television show that features criminals on the lam will focus on the death of a woman who was shot in the head while in the back seat of a car her husband was driving.

"I'll watch because I want to see this guy caught," Milton Jacobs said of the "America's Most Wanted" episode scheduled for Saturday night. "But I try not to think about it."

Jacobs' 21-year-old wife, Atlanta, was shot in early October while the family was stopped at a red light in northwest Broken Arrow. They were trying to get home after a pickup basketball game turned violent.

"I think it's what's so disheartening to most of us," Broken Arrow Police Sgt. Heath Arning said. "Something that seems so trivial to us -- a basketball game -- turned into such a violent act."

Two men have surrendered to authorities in connection with the shooting, but the man believed to be the most dangerous of the three is still loose, Arning said.

"My belief is that there was one active shooter in that vehicle," he said. "It is my belief that it was Eric Laron Cooks."

Cooks, 22, Clarence Allen, 24, and Londale Harris, 23, are all charged with first-degree murder in Mrs. Jacobs' death. Allen and Harris are awaiting a preliminary hearing.

Jacobs played ball with Cooks occasionally at the Broken Arrow Community Center, but that night, "it was a physical game of basketball," he said.

After leaving the court, the family stayed inside the community center for a while. Then the argument threatened to flare up again.

Mrs. Jacobs begged her husband to take them home, and she climbed into the back seat with their 5-month-old baby. Jacobs sped off, with a friend following in another car and the three suspects behind them. The group stopped at a light.

"I thought, `I'm going to get on the highway and drive. I don't want to go home right now. I don't want to let these guys know where we live,"' Jacobs said.

"Right when we stopped -- about to get on the highway -- that's when it happened."

Jacobs said he heard a sound similar to firecrackers and jumped out of the car with it still running. He then saw his wife lying in the back, the baby screaming.

"All I could do was hold her and try to make the blood stop,"

he said.

Mrs. Jacobs died at a Tulsa hospital a short time later.

Cooks is described as a black man, 5-feet-9 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. He has a dark tattoo of a cat or panther on his right bicep.

------ Anyone with information about the crime can call the Broken Arrow Police Department at (918) 259-8400. Callers can remain anonymous. The show airs at 8 p.m. Saturday on Fox.