CLAREMORE, Okla — Deputies with the Rogers County Sheriff's Department responded to a call in the area of South 4100 Road and East 480 Road on reports of an intoxicated man who injured multiple party guests.
They said the suspect, Clinton Cottom, showed up at the homeowner's Bedlam Party Saturday night as an uninvited guest. The report says Cottom was drunk and made unwanted sexual advances to several females at the home. Witnesses told deputies he had a belligerent attitude and at a point was physically restrained from entering the house.
They asked Cottom to leave the party and he went to the neighbor's house where his truck was parked and drove home. Cottom returned shortly after and sped his truck down the driveway towards the party guests causing them to run. He hit a black Lexus which caused a Jeep to strike the garage door of the house.
Cottom then drove his truck into a Buick, pinning one of the guests between the Buick and the Jeep. That person is suffering a fractured pelvis. When Cottom's truck struck the Buick, it caused his truck to become airborne and land on another guest.
Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton told 2 News, "his truck strikes another victim and the worst tragedy obviously occurs there toward the end where his F250 ford three-quarter ton pick up, he ramps it off of a parked car that’s there turns it over on its side trapping the female victim that died underneath that.”
One of the people at the scene lifted the truck using a tractor, but the woman died. Another woman was injured when she was struck by the bumper of the suspect's truck, she is hospitalized for her injuries. Two of the guests were in their SUV at the time of the incidents, their SUV was also hit by Cottom's truck.
Cottom faces charges of first-degree murder, four counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and sexual battery.
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