Man Receives 25-Year Prison Sentence For Fatal Shooting Of 13-Year-Old At Tulsa Apartment Complex

A 21-year-old has been sentenced to 300 months imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for the murder of a 13-year-old in Tulsa in 2021.

Christian James Harrison was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on Thursday for second-degree murder.

On Dec. 22, 2021, Tulsa Police Officers responded to the Parkview Terrace Apartments near 61st and Union for a shooting.

At the scene, officers found the 13-year-old with gunshot wounds and he died after being transported to the hospital.

Harrison was arrested six days later in Locust Grove by The Cherokee Nation Marshal Service and the FBI.

In November 2022, Harrison pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting.

Court records state that Harrison and the victim's older brother were in an argument at the apartment complex when the brother left and came back with the 13-year-old victim and another teenager.

Harrison fired seven times at the group, hitting the victim three times, records show.

Harrison is a citizen of the Seminole Nation and will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau Prisons facility, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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