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October 3, 2008

Braggs student charged with felony





An 18-year-old Braggs High School senior was charged Friday with planning to conspire to perform an act of violence, a felony.

Alex Jay Dovell is being held without bond in the Muskogee County/City Detention Facility pending a competency hearing, said Muskogee County District Attorney Larry Moore.

Dovell planned to kill four students at Braggs Public Schools, made a list of their names and planned to go to Tulsa or California after the killings, the court filing states.

Dovell also is accused of writing a note that was sent back and forth with another student in which Dovell wrote about getting revenge on the town of Braggs, an affidavit filed in the case states.

A student found the note with a list of names targeted for killings, said Braggs Police Chief Allen Bennett.

“It appeared to me to be a hit list of students names,” he wrote.

The affidavit states Bennett talked with Dovell in the principal’s office and read him his rights.

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