Oklahoma prosecutors indicted a man on four counts of first-degree murder on Friday, about two weeks after he allegedly killed four workers at a marijuana farm and fled the state.
Chen Wu, 45, was arrested in Florida on November 22 after a tag reader identified his vehicle.
This photo released by the US Marshals Service shows Chen Wu following his arrest by Miami Beach police on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 in South Florida.
(US Marshals Service via AP)
Prosecutors wrote in court documents that Wu went to the marijuana farm, located about 55 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, and demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars that he had invested in the operation.
“Eyewitnesses to the murders have stated that [Wu] demanded that other employees of the marijuana operation hand over $300,000, as return of a portion of his ‘investment’ in the company,” Assistant District Attorney Austin Murrey wrote in court papers. “The fact that he could not deliver about at a moment’s notice is what precipitated the mass murder.”
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Four Chinese nationals were killed in the shooting and a fifth person was injured.
This photo provided by the Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation Department shows Wu Chen, the suspect in the slayings of four people over the weekend at a marijuana farm in Oklahoma.
(Miami-Dade Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP)
Medical marijuana became legal in Oklahoma in 2018. At least 75% of each operation must be owned by an Oklahoman, but the license application at the farm where the quadruple homicide occurred was obtained fraudulently, according to KFOR.
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Prosecutors filed a motion for Wu to be held without bail. A lawyer for Wu was not listed in court records.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
