UPDATE: Nolen officially charged with murder, assault
Alton Nolen
A 2013 mug shot of Alton Alexander Nolen.
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:57 am | Updated: 12:45 pm, Tue Sep 30, 2014.
By Jessica Bruha
Criminal charges were filed against Alton Nolen Tuesday morning following the gruesome acts that took place Thursday at Vaughan Foods in Moore.
Nolen, 30, was charged with first-degree murder with malice aforethought and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon in Cleveland County District Court.
According to the affidavit filed with the charges, Nolen, an employee at Vaughan's, had just been suspended due to a complaint at the business.
"He had been in an altercation at work earlier that day," said District Attorney Greg Mashburn.
Nolen left the human resources office, drove to his residence “for the sole reason to retrieve a large bladed knife” and then returned to the business with his knife in his shoe with the intention of assaulting an employee, the affidavit said.
Colleen Hufford, 54, was killed and Traci Johnson, 43, sustained several stab wounds. Nolen allegedly grabbed Hufford from behind during the incident and after decapitating her, moved to Johnson. Johnson was cut across the throat and left side of her face before Nolen was shot, the document states.
COO of Vaughan Foods Mark Vaughan, also an Oklahoma County Reserve officer, shot Nolen with a rifle. Nolen remains hospitalized under police guard and is expected to be arrested and jailed later this week.
Johnson was released from the hospital over the weekend.
Nolen openly admitted to beheading the first victim and attempting to behead the second victim with the knife he retrieved from his apartment, the affidavit said.
"We will fully prosecute each crime and make sure he gets held accountable," Mashburn said.
Because Nolen had been recently trying to convert his co-workers at Vaughan to the Muslim faith, the FBI was brought into the investigations. Mashburn said Tuesday the FBI is looking into Nolen's history and the relationship he would have to any groups.
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