It seems like something from a horror movie. Broken Arrow police receive a 9-1-1 call, and the line goes silent. They trace the call to a home in a nice,quiet neighborhood. When they arrive, they are confronted with blood on the porch and the sound of moaning inside. They forcible enter the home tofind a gruesome and disturbing sight.
After pulling a 13-year-old girl to safety and calling for emergency medical care, they find five more family members, including two adults and three children,stabbed to death. Upstairs, they find a 2-year-old girl, who is thankfully unharmed.
Investigators follow footprints out the back door of the upper middle class home, and some two hundred feet away, they find two brothers. Robert Bever,18, and his younger brother Michael, 16, were not victims of the attack, however. Police say the teen boys were the perpetrators of the grisly attackon their parents and siblings.
After their 13-year-old sister emerged from surgery, investigators say she identified her eldest brothers as her assailant and the murderers of her parents,her 7- and 12-year-old brothers, and her 5-year-old sister.
Original reports said that the police were responding to a silent 9-1-1 call, but later, police confirmed that someone had actually spoken to a dispatcher,saying his brother was attacking the family. Initial speculation was that the surviving 13-year-old girl had called police, but newer reports say the12-year-old brother who was ultimately killed was the 9-1-1 caller, saving two of his sisters with his call.
Police are now saying that the eldest Bever brother gave a full confession to the quintuple murder on Thursday night, and that he said the murders of hisfamily members were "only the beginning." Investigators note that he seems to be smirking in his mug shot and that he shows no remorse for killinghis parents and younger siblings.
Little information has been released on the younger brother, Michael. However, he has also been arrested in connection with the killings. In Oklahoma,a 16-year-old charged with first degree murder will be tried as an adult, but juveniles are not eligible for the death penalty.
Neighbors say the family kept to themselves, calling them "reclusive." The father, David Bever, worked from home in the computer field. The mother, April,homeschooled their seven children. The Bevers had recently launched a non-profit organization to help parents of premature babies to pay medical expenses.They began the nonprofit group, Autumn Hope, after their own child, the surviving toddler,was born prematurely at 23 weeks.
Thus far, the brothers have given no motive for the quintuple murders or the planned killing spree after murdering their family members.
