Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office investigators said a note cleared up some questions surrounding last week’s fatal double-shooting in Warner.

The bodies of Melinda Shatto, 37, and Charles Edward Dickson, 48, were found inside Shatto’s Warner apartment Friday, dead of gunshot wounds.

Sheriff’s office Investigator Bert Poole said Monday the shooting was officially being ruled a murder-suicide. Investigators termed it a “probable murder-suicide” Friday as the investigation began.

Sheriff’s Office investigators Coletta Peyton and Poole traveled with members of Dickson’s family to a hotel room in Vinita where Dickson was believed to be living.

Peyton said Dickson was part of a construction crew building a hospital in Vinita.

Investigators recovered a laptop computer with a note directed from Dickson to his family, Peyton said.

Inside the note, Dickson admits to stalking Shatto and talks about suicide, Peyton said.

“The note clears some things up for us that we had questions about. We had her (Shatto’s) family saying he’d been stalking (Shatto),” Peyton said. “And he admits to it in the letter.”

Peyton said it appeared Dickson had been typing on the letter for more than two months.

“He never mentions anything about a murder-suicide,” Peyton said. “But he insinuates about him committing suicide in the note. He insinuates he’s been contemplating it for two months.”

Peyton said Dickson’s ex-wife told investigators Dickson stalked her for seven years after the couple divorced 18 years ago.

“As far as we know right now, (Dickson) never tried anything like this with her,” Peyton said.

Muskogee County District Attorney’s Office Investigator Richard Slader said aside from problems Shatto reportedly had with Dickson during the last few months, nothing stood out as an indicator of this type of violence.

Slader said he searched for information regarding Dickson and any criminal past, but came up empty.

“I searched him every way you could search him and didn’t find anything,” Slader said. “No criminal history, no protective orders or anything.”

Slader said a key was found on the floor where the bodies were located.

The key, Slader said, fit the apartment’s front door.

“I tried it myself, it didn’t work in the deadbolt,” Slader said. “It unlocked the door knob. So apparently the deadbolt wasn’t locked and this key was used to get inside.”

The shooting is now the second murder-suicide in Warner this year. The bodies of Paula Young, 45, and Jimmy Wayne Young, 54, were found in a house in Warner on April 1. Investigators said Jimmy Wayne Young shot Paula Young, his ex-wife, before shooting himself.

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