Victims Brooke Phillips, 22, Milagros "Millie" Barrera, 22, Jennifer Ermey, 25, and Casey Barrientos, 32
Man will face death penalty in 2009 'Cathouse' killings trial in Oklahoma
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A man accused of the killing of a drug dealer and three women — including two who were pregnant — will face the death penalty at trial.
Russell Lee Hogshooter, 37, will be tried on six counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy, Oklahoma County Special Judge Fred Doak ruled Tuesday.
Hogshooter is one of two men charged with the 2009 slayings in November. The other man, Jonathan Allen Cochran, 35, has pleaded guilty and is serving a 25-year prison sentence for his role.
One of the victims, 22-year-old Brooke Phillips, was a prostitute featured on “Cathouse,” a reality television show about a Nevada brothel.
Cochran testified Tuesday to what prosecutors have long alleged — Casey Mark Barrientos, 32, was the target of the attack.
Phillips, Jennifer Lynn Ermey, 25, and Milagros “Millie” Barrera, 22, were killed to eliminate them as witnesses, Cochran testified. Phillips and Barrera were pregnant.
The initial plan was to rob the house of money and drugs while nobody was home, but the assailants agreed to kill anyone they found inside the home and armed themselves before leaving Salina, OK, for Oklahoma City, Cochran said.
He also testified that Indian Brotherhood war chief Denny Phillips, 37, orchestrated the plan, but took a separate vehicle than Cochran, Hogshooter and David Allen Tyner, 33.
Tyner pleaded guilty in 2012 and is sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Denny Phillips’ trial is scheduled for the fall.
Cochran was given a “junk gun” and his role was largely to back up the other men, but found himself inside the house while the slayings were occurring, he testified. He was ordered to kill one of the women, but intentionally missed her when he shot, Cochran told the judge.
Prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty. The aggravating circumstances in each victim’s murder were not read in open court.
Cochran is due in court July 15.
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