Comment on Oklahoma's protective orders do little to protect abuse victims from guns

Oklahoma's protective orders do little to protect abuse victims from guns

By Brianna Bailey Staff Writer bbailey@oklahoman.comEmily Deffner described her father, Timothy "Michael" Deffner, as an angry, unpredictable man with a red face, big nose and a bowed-out chest, in a request for a protective order she filed against him. Michael Deffner once sent his daughter photographs of a knife and threatened to slit her boyfriend's throat and kill him, she said in the petition. In a separate request for a protective order, Michael Deffner's wife, Cayann Patterson Deffner, said her husband possessed multiple guns that belonged to her mother and that he had threatened to kill her and her children. "He hides guns throughout our house — most recently in my daughter's room," Cayann Deffner, wrote in a 2015 application for a protective order against her estranged husband Two five-year protective orders — filed separately in two counties — didn't stop Michael Deffner, 55, from using a .30-caliber hunting rifle to shoot and kill Cayann Deffner, 49, and her divorce attorney, Bryan Young, 47, in Norman in February.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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