The mother of an Oklahoma murder suspect who allegedly beheaded a co-worker has apologized for his crimes, asking for strangers to pray for her family as she defended her crazed kin.
Alton Nolen, a 30-year-old Islamic convert, went on a rampage Thursday afternoon following his firing at Vaughan Foods in Moore, Okla. He severed 54-year-old Colleen Hufford’s head with a produce knife before attacking Traci Johnson, 43, who survived the slashing, police said.
“My son was a good kid,” Joyce Nolen said in a Facebook video of her son. “I know what they saying, that he done, but I’m going to tell you this, that’s not my son. There’s two sides to every story, and we’re only hearing one.”
The ex-con was taken down by the company’s chief operating officer, Mark Vaughn, a reserve deputy sheriff who opened fire after hearing screams and cries.
“His family, our hearts bleed right now because what they saying Alton has done,” Joyce Nolen says in the 98-second clip, posted to Facebook on Saturday night. “I want to apologize to both families because this is not Alton.”
Johnson, the injured victim, has since been released from the hospital.
Nolen will likely be charged Monday and could be moved from the hospital to jail sometime this week. Officers have spoken to the suspect about his spree.
Facebook “SHARIA LAW IS COMING!!!” Nolen warned in one Facebook post on his page, which is filled with an obessession with Islamic extremism.
Steve Sisney/AP Mark Vaughan, chief operating officer of the plant, ended the rampage when he fired upon Alton Nolen.
Kyle Phillips/AP A Vaughan Foods plant employee becomes emotional after the knife attack Thursday in Moore, Okla.
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The man's family is in shock.
“We are all very remorseful,” Paige Nolen, his sister, told The Oklahoman. "If he had a chance to say anything, more than likely he would be apologizing, and that’s what we want the world to know.”
Nolen was let out of prison in March 2013 after serving less than two years for three felony convictions, according to the newspaper.
Hours before his alleged rampage, Nolen called Paige Nolen in “high spirits,” she told The Oklahoman.
“He was so happy when he got the job (at Vaughan),” Paige Nolen said. “He was really happy because everyone he talked to told him it’s going to be hard getting a job with the felonies ... I’ll never forget, you know, him feeling like he conquered it at that time.”
Nolen’s online persona revealed a dark side obsessed with Islamic extremism. Posting under the name “Jah’Keem Yisrael,” Nolen fantasized about the Statue of Liberty “going into flames” and posted a picture of a beheading.
Next to a photo of Pope Benedict XVI posted in May, Nolen wrote: “SHARIA LAW IS COMING!!!!”
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