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MURDER-SUICIDE: Owasso police release details

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OK: WOMAN KILLED BY HUSBAND AFTER SOCIAL POST

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    OWASSO, Oklahoma (KJRH) — Investigators with the Owasso Police Department say Jeremiah Shawn Duffey shot and killed his wife, Sara, before killing himself the evening of July 23.

Owasso police responded to a domestic violence call from Sara, after dispatchers heard a gunshot on the call. They said the caller stopped responding after the shot.

A second 911 call then came in from Sara’s son, who called from a neighbor’s home after he witnessed the shooting. Police found two people dead inside the home.

Sara filed a protective order against Shawn last month, in the paperwork she alleged he got caught kissing a child on one of the basketball teams that he coaches. The protective order claims after being confronted, Shawn threatened suicide and went on the run. She’d filed two previous protective orders against him in 2021, one for abuse and one for stalking.

The parent of that student contacted Owasso police on June 9. She said Duffey inappropriately touched her child.

Owasso police released more details about this investigation on July 25th.

They got a call from the mother around 8 p.m. on June 9th. The mother said that evening while at basketball practice for a competitive traveling team another coach witnessed Shawn Duffey inappropriately touch a child on the team. Duffey also coached the team.

The mother reported similar conduct by this coach towards her daughter over an extended period of time, in multiple law enforcement jurisdictions, across multiple states prior to this incident.

When the other coach witnessed the incident he stopped it and called the child’s mother. Police said Duffey took off and didn’t see him again after the incident.

Since Duffy was Osage the incident is federal jurisdiction, Owasso police turned their report over to the investigating agency.

The child’s mother also filed a protective order against Shawn, claiming he gave her daughter to stay quiet about inappropriate messages and actions.

Neighbors in Owasso are stunned.

“Domestic violence doesn’t discriminate,” said Brittany Fisher. “It does not pick you because you have a nice home, socially or economically, it does not matter.”

2 News Oklahoma previously interviewed Shawn and Sara following a story involving embezzlement at a nearby school.

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Western Europe breaks temperature record in summer plagued by heatwaves and wildfires

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(CNN) — The first two months of summer in western Europe have been the hottest on record, the European Union’s climate monitor said Monday, as the continent grapples with devastating wildfires and braces for yet another heatwave.The average temperature for June and July was 21.62 degrees Celsius (70.9 Fahrenheit), about 2.79 degrees above the average, and surpassing the previous heat record set in 2022, said the Copernicus climate change service.July was also the hottest month ever logged for the world’s non-polar oceans, Copernicus said, with record high temperatures set along the Atlantic and western Mediterranean, putting sea life and coastal communities at risk. The conditions were partly fueled by the so-called “Super” El Niño weather pattern developing in the pacific.The continent has been hit by a string of deadly heatwaves, with more hot temperatures forecast for this week. Heat has killed more than 25,000 people across Europe this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent but is particularly ill-equipped to withstand heat, due to older infrastructure and a lack of air conditioning.The scorching temperatures and persistent droughts in June and July mutually reinforced each other to create a hot weather spiral, according to Samantha Burgess, strategic lead for climate at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.“As soils dry out, they lose their ability to provide natural cooling, allowing heat to build more readily,” Burgess said, adding that it was “a clear example of how climate change is intensifying heat extremes.”Surface soil moisture levels across western Europe in July 2026 were also “significantly lower” than in July 2022, the last summer the region saw extreme drought, with “exceptional to record deficits” for rain and soil moisture in France, Spain and parts of Germany and the United Kingdom, the scientists found.The record-breaking summer heat has fostered conditions for Europe’s record-setting wildfires, which have displaced hundreds of thousands of people and burned more than 1.23 million acres of land, mainly in Spain, France and Italy, according to an August 6 report by the EU.Beyond the scorched land, the fires have also had a broader effect across the continent, increasing emissions and disrupting air quality, said Laurence Rouil, director of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.“Larger fires produce more smoke and inject it higher into the atmosphere, meaning it can travel further and impact air quality not only locally, but across the wider region,” Rouil said.Severe droughts have also sucked the water from Europe’s major rivers, particularly the Seine, the Rhine and the Danube, threatening the continent’s energy supply.Hungary and Romania were forced to temporarily shut down nuclear reactors cooled by the Danube, Europe’s second-longest river, which has experienced such low water levels that the crisis can be observed from space.Richard Allan, a climate science professor at the University of Reading in England previously told CNN the these record river lows are likely to be broken again in the future and that this “will only be the top of the iceberg.”“Managing water resources will become progressively more challenging.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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