RJ was scheduled to travel to Tulsa Oklahoma in 2014 to spend a year writing, meeting with the Killers in prison, speaking with Tulsa’s Mayor, the Homicide Detectives and Surviving Victims. However, the trip had to be postponed until a later date due to RJs medical issues.

The Media Dubbed Him The Good Friday Shooter.

Jacob England is a convicted killer, there is little doubt as to what he did with his crime partner on that fateful night. Nobody disputes that people were murdered, in cold blood, from inside a window of an old red pick up truck.

From the forceful mind of Bestselling Author RJ Smith erupts this stunning summer masterpiece of murder, conspiracy and hatred. Yet, this story is much more than a horrible act carried out under the influence of Xanax and liquor.

Nobody understood him.

Until the shots rang out.

Monday April 3rd, 2018, will mark six years since the Good Friday Shooting Spree in north Tulsa.  Three people were slaughtered by gunshots, two others were injured, and two men, Alvin Watts and Jacob England are now serving life sentences for the shooting spree.

On April 6, 2012, William Allen, Bobby Clark and Dannaer Fields were all randomly gunned down while walking in different areas of north Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Two others, Deon Tucker and David Hall were seriously wounded but survived.

The shooters, England and Watts, are alleged to have targeted the victims because they were black. 

Community leaders have stated that the shooting spree was a tragic time in Tulsa’s history and that it should never be forgotten.

“All of the things that have occurred in New York and other areas of the country with the relationships between the races has been difficult, been strained,” said Pastor Warren Blakney of North Peoria Church of Christ.  “I think it’s important that we continue to talk about how these things can happen so quickly.”

Out of respect for the families, Blakney said hat his church would not hold a public service to commemorate the date but would  hold something more private to honor the victims.

In 2014 I contacted the Mayor’s Office, Tulsa Homicide the Community Leaders, and both convicted killers, Jake England and Alvin Watts, then being held in separate State Prisons. All agreed to be interviewed in order for this writer to garner the facts relating to the case for a True Crime Book and documentary titled The Good Friday Killers. Scheduled to travel to Oklahoma in Summer 2014, the trip was unfortunately postponed due to a biking accident I suffered in in the small Florida town of Belleair Bluffs.

After 60 months of surgeries to correct serious injuries to my neck, shoulder and back, I have yet to be physically well enough to complete a trip to Tulsa in order to meet with the killers and write the book. Staying in close contact with all involved, it is my hope to one day make it out there to gather the facts I need to write this terrible story.

Called a “Spree Killing”, the story went international and was covered extensively by most media outlets. Intrigued by the horrors of the events, I contacted young Jacob England and have taped hundreds of hours of interviews with the responsible persons.

With the High Profile Reverends, Jesse Jackson and AL Sharpton involved, the crime was sensationalized due to other shootings and murders of black men around the country. The Good Friday Killers, is a project I shall keep in the forefront of the public consciousness and I continue to have plans in the future to write an exclusive authorized biography of Mr. England and Alvin Watts.

Updated by the Author: May 1st, 2018