'Pulled under by those back tires': Mother of 7 killed in QuikTrip parking lot during argument with boyfriend, police say

An Oklahoma antheral is down bars aft moving implicit and sidesplitting his woman during an statement astatine a gas station, Sooner State constabulary say.

Tyler Kendrick, 39, stands accused of 1 number each of manslaughter and leaving the country of a fatality, according to instrumentality enforcement.

The underlying incidental occurred connected July 3 astatine a QuikTrip successful Collinsville — a small, affluent suburb astir 20 miles owed northbound of Tulsa — and took the beingness of 37-year-old Amber Rena Lee, who was formerly known arsenic Amber Pippin.

Officers responded to the state presumption "following a domestic-related incidental successful which a young pistillate was struck by a vehicle," a press release issued by the Collinsville Police Department reads.

Lee, the parent of 7 children betwixt the ages of 3 to 18, was rushed to a adjacent hospital, wherever she aboriginal died, constabulary said.

The mates had been "in a dating relationship" but were successful the process of dividing up their property, Collinsville Police Chief Matt Burke told People. Earlier that day, a person helped the unfortunate instrumentality immoderate idiosyncratic belongings to the suspect and past drove her backmost to the QuikTrip wherever her car was parked.

But Kendrick was determination waiting erstwhile Lee arrived, constabulary said.

In the parking lot, Lee and Kendrick argued, according to Tulsa-based CBS affiliate KOTV. Burke said the statement started due to the fact that the antheral believed the pistillate retained immoderate of his possessions.

"The statement started to escalate, astatine which constituent the person went to interruption up the altercation, but Tyler drove disconnected and successful the process, ran her over," the constabulary main told the magazine.

Law enforcement officials judge the unfortunate was inadvertently deed erstwhile the suspect backed up his dual-rear-wheel pickup truck.

"We deliberation she got deed and was pulled nether by those backmost tires," Burke continued. "We don't judge the fishy intended to needfully harm her, but we bash judge his negligent actions led to her death."

The constabulary main said investigators surmise the woman's decease was straight caused by a chopped to an artery successful 1 of her legs, but are presently waiting for confirmation from the aesculapian examiner.

"This is simply a large illustration of wherefore we can't fto our emotions get the champion of us," Burke added. "We person to ever instrumentality information of different radical astir america and the abstraction astir us. When we fto our emotions get the amended of us, we tin ruin lives. This is unfortunate for everybody involved."

Kendrick was arrested aboriginal that aforesaid time successful Owasso — the largest bluish suburb of Tulsa by colonisation — done the usage of postulation cameras and a constabulary section drone, authorities said.

"When that tag crossed 1 of the FLOCK cameras, the drone saw that conveyance coming successful the nonstop spot, and determination were 2 officers up successful that country arsenic well," Owasso Police Capt. Nick Boatman told KOTV. "They fundamentally conscionable honed successful connected him."

In comments to the TV station, the slain pistillate was remembered fondly by her mother, who said her daughter's beingness was dedicated to her children and to helping friends.

"It's conscionable a antithetic feeling erstwhile it's your child," the grieving parent said. "It's terrible. This is going to beryllium hard. It's my archetypal child. She was my champion friend…More than anything, Amber wanted a beingness filled with love, laughter and precious moments with her babies."

Kendrick is presently detained successful the Tulsa County Jail connected a clasp from the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service.