Three of Ryan Satterfield’s friends named Deandre Clark in testimony Monday as the man who shot Satterfield to death.

“Tommy Dean said, ‘Pop that one,’ and Deandre Clark shot (Ryan),” Isaac Hopkins testified.

Testimony in a preliminary hearing in the Nov. 23 slaying began Monday.

All three friends — Hopkins, 18; Connor Adcock, 17; and Darius Nichols, 16 — testified that Satterfield, 17, was shot and killed at 1505 E. Okmulgee Ave. the night before Thanksgiving during what police referred to as a “robbery gone bad.”  

Six males — Clark, 18;  Jordan Miller, 17;  Martin Miller, 18; Tommy Dean Jr., 19;  Frederick Watson, 18; and Troy Dufur, 17 — are charged with first-degree felony murder.

Muskogee Police Officer James Hamlin and Muskogee Police Investigator Mark Ridley also testified.

Satterfield’s friends said Satterfield was selling marijuana from the home.

Hopkins, Nichols and Adcock said they were smoking marijuana when there was a knock at the front door. Hopkins, who lived at the house at the time, said Adcock answered the door.

“Tommy (Dean) and Jordan (Miller) walked in and asked if we knew where to get weed,” Hopkins testified.

He said Jordan Miller began to ask Adcock whether they were selling weed. Adcock testified that he pulled out a quarter of an ounce of marijuana but told Dean and Jordan Miller that he wasn’t going to sell it.

Hopkins, Adcock and Nichols testified that Martin Miller, Clark, and Watson entered the home after Adcock briefly spoke to Dean, and Clark was carrying a gun.

“Deandre Clark walked in and pistol-whipped Connor with the barrel of the gun,” Hopkins said. “They were asking us, ‘Where’s the weed at,’ and they took our phones and money.”

Hopkins, Nichols and Adcock said they and Satterfield were taken into the kitchen and told to kneel.

“They were saying they were going to blow our kneecaps off and stuff,” Nichols testified.

Hopkins said Watson punched Nichols, and Watson, Dean, Clark, Jordan and Martin Miller began “stomping on us all.”

Hopkins said that only Clark, who had the gun, and Dean, who was in the living room near the front door, were visible when Satterfield was shot.

Hopkins, Nichols and Adcock said that after they were beaten up by the assailants, Watson, Jordan Miller and Martin Miller began going through the house, looking for items to take.

When Satterfield was shot, Hopkins said, he ran into the attic to hide, and Clark and Dean left the house.

Nichols testified he joined Hopkins in the attic, but: “We were only up there for a couple seconds. I was scared and I wanted to get somewhere safer.”

Hopkins said that while he was in the attic, he heard someone say, “He’s still breathing,” referring to Satterfield, so he went back into the kitchen.

Adcock testified that he held Satterfield’s hand and told him it would be OK.

Adcock, bloody from being hit with Clark’s rifle, ran to a neighbor’s house for help.

“I told a neighbor, ‘Help, my best friend’s been shot,’ but he didn’t believe me,” Adcock said.

Hopkins said he, Adcock and Nichols then got into Adcock’s truck and left the house but quickly returned.

“We came back to get Ryan and put him in the truck and take him to the hospital,” Hopkins said. “But he was dead.”

Martin Miller’s attorney, Larry Vickers, asked Hopkins how he knew Satterfield was dead.

“His body was white, sir,” Hopkins replied.

Hamlin testified that when he arrived he felt Satterfield’s body for a pulse but did not find one.

The preliminary hearing will be continued at 9 a.m. March 26. Moore said the state would present the medical examiner’s report then.

Michelle Satterfield, the victim’s mother, spent Monday morning and afternoon listening to testimony before visiting her son’s grave.

She said that although no outcome in the case would make her happy, she did want one thing:

“I want justice for my son.”

Reach Dylan Goforth at (918) 684-2903 or dgoforth@muskogeephoenix.com.