Jury trials have been scheduled for a McLoud area man and woman charged in connection with a triple stabbing last summer in early July.
Joshua Lynn Barnett, 34, was formally charged Aug. 3, 2023 in Lincoln Count District with three counts of assault and battery with deadly weapon.
Court records show that two of the counts have been amended to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Court records show a $50,000 bench warrant was issued for Barnett on July 5 and returned and filed on July 27 when he appeared before Special Judge Emily Mueller. He made his initial appearance before her on Aug. 3. The judge denied the state’s motion to increase the bond at that time and set a further initial appearance for Aug. 17 with the bond to remain the same.
Also formally charged in Lincoln County District Court Aug. 2 with accessory to assault and battery with a deadly weapon is Kristina Renea Flores, 31.
Recently, appearing for her arraignment before District Judge John Canavan, she entered a not guilty plea. The judge received the plea and set her case for the felony disposition docket on May 7, 2024 and a jury trial on July 17, 2024.
Barnett, also appearing recently for his arraignment before Judge Canavan, pleaded not guilty as well. The judge received his plea and set him for the felony disposition docket and jury trial on the same dates as Flores.
In Count 1, Barnett is accused on July 2 of this year, without justifiable or excusable cause, of assaulting Douglas Barnett with a deadly weapon, a knife, stabbing him in the chest.
Count 2 accuses him on the same date of stabbing Brandi Barnett with a knife in the stomach.
And Count 3 charges him with stabbing Brandon Barnett with a knife in the arm.
Flores is accused on about July 2 this year of removing items from the scene of a crime and fleeing with Joshua Barnett after he stabbed multiple people.
In an affidavit of probable cause, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent George Belding states that on July 2 around 9:50 p.m. the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call of a triple stabbing at 333061 Appaloosa Court in McLoud.
The deputy made contact with Haley Holland and Jamie Flores, the agent notes, and the Sheriff’s Office requested OSBI Investigative Services to assist in the investigation of the stabbing.
Belding reported he interviewed Holland who told him that Joshua Barnett stabbed Douglas Barnett, Brandi Barnett and Brandon Barnett during an altercation.
Holland reportedly informed Belding that Joshua Barnett became angry after Leah Barnett declined to give him some money.
Holland further informed the OSBI agent that after arguing with Leah, Douglas, Brandi and Brandon, Joshua brandished a knife and threatened everyone with the knife.
Joshua reportedly chased down Douglas and stabbed him in the chest area. Brandon and Jamie Flores were trying to restrain Joshua and remove the knife from his hand and Brandi attempted to calm down Joshua.
He then stabbed Brandi in the stomach and Brandon was also stabbed in the arm during the altercation, Belding says in the affidavit.
The agent said Leah, Brandon and Brandi took Douglas to a nearby hospital as he was bleeding a lot and feared he might die.
Belding states that after the altercation, witnesses observed Kristina Flores, wife or girlfriend of Joshua, picking up items off the ground prior to getting into a Mitsubishi Gallant and fleeing the scene with Joshua.
According to the affidavit, on July 3, OSBI Special Agent Kevin Woodward interviewed Brandi and Brandon Barnett at St. Anthony Hospital in Shawnee.
They related a similar account of the altercation and Brandon advised Woodward he was unaware that Joshua had a knife until he felt a cut on his arm.
In the affidavit it’s pointed out that Kristina had been abetting Joshua until his arrest on July 13 in Dallas, Texas. Kristina was reportedly driving the Mitsubishi Gallant when Joshua was arrested on an active warrant and taken into custody by the Dallas Police Department.
The affidavit notes that in Joshua’s criminal history he was cited for multiple traffic violations.
According to Kristina’s criminal history, she was previously cited for multiple traffic violations.