Police: Son Arrested After Oklahoma Official Fatally Stabbed

Oklahoma’s labor commissioner died after he was stabbed multiple times at an Oklahoma City restaurant, and his adult son has been arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in the slaying, police said.Officers were called around 6:30 ...

Christian Costello, son of Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Mark Costello, is placed in a police car, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015, at the scene where Mark Costello was fatally stabbed in Oklahoma City. Christian Costello was arrested on a first-degree murder complaint, police said. (Nate Billings/The Oklahoman via AP) LOCAL STATIONS OUT (KFOR, KOCO, KWTV, KOKH, KAUT OUT); LOCAL WEBSITES OUT; LOCAL PRINT OUT (EDMOND SUN OUT, OKLAHOMA GAZETTE OUT) TABLOIDS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

OKLAHOMA CITY—Oklahoma’s labor commissioner died after he was stabbed multiple times at an Oklahoma City restaurant, and his adult son has been arrested on a first-degree murder complaint in the slaying, police said.

Officers were called around 6:30 p.m. Sunday to a Braum’s ice cream and fast-food restaurant on the city’s northwest side after a stabbing was reported, Oklahoma City Police Department Capt. Paco Balderrama said. Police found Labor Commissioner Mark Costello stabbed multiple times in the head and neck, Balderrama said. Costello, 59, was taken to a hospital, where he died.

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