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1/21/2006, 08:47 AM
Meet the late Timothy Walker. His sexual predator career is now over.
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One down, still way too many to go.
Suspect in sexual attack dies after hanging himself
By NICOLE MARSHALL
Tulsa World Staff Writer
1/21/2006
He was arrested in the Tuesday night assault and kidnapping of a woman outside a Tulsa store. A registered sex offender who was arrested in connection with a kidnapping and sexual assault died Friday, one day after he hanged himself with a sheet at the Tulsa Jail.
Timothy Lee Walker, 42, was pronounced dead at 1:07 p.m., Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Tim Albin said. Kidnapping, attempted rape and forcible sodomy charges were filed against Walker about 12:30 p.m. Friday, but they were dismissed later in the day after he died.
Walker was booked into the Tulsa Jail on Wednesday on allegations that he kidnapped a woman from the Walgreens parking lot at 6415 E. Pine St. and sexually assaulted her Tuesday night.
The 25-year-old woman was talking on her cellular phone with her boss when she was approached by an armed man. Her boss heard her scream, so he called the police and then drove to the store.
The kidnapper made the woman get into her car and drive to Mohawk Park. Once there, he sexually assaulted her by forcing her to perform oral sex and then made her drive back to the area of the store.
When the woman's boss saw the car return to the area, he alerted police officers, and they rescued the woman and arrested Walker.
A jailer found Walker hanging from his bunk in his cell about 5 p.m. Thursday. Jail employees cut him down and tried to resuscitate him.
An ambulance took Walker in critical condition to Hillcrest Medical Center, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. No one else was in the cell when Walker hanged himself, Albin said.
Walker's arrest report indicates that he initially was combative and suicidal. He met with a mental health worker, who cleared him to be booked, and he was not on suicide watch at the jail, Albin said.
Walker has a history of mental retardation and once was a resident of the now-closed Hissom Memorial Center, court records show. He previously was ruled competent to stand trial, and his sexual battery, burglary and indecent exposure convictions led to prison sentences.
Walker registered as a sex offender after his release from prison in June, having served 13 years of a 20-year sentence. He had been convicted of two counts of sexual battery for separate 1992 attacks on women at two Tulsa parks.
Before Walker was convicted in that case, a judge ordered that he undergo a competency evaluation after a defense attorney cited his history of mental retardation.
During questioning by a psychologist in 1992, Walker said he had completed the seventh grade, had never worked and had never lived alone.
He said he was treated at Children's Medical Center as a child and then was placed at the L.E. Rader Center and then Hissom Memorial Center until 1982.
The psychologist's report said Walker said he was sick and needed help and that he had been told that he had the mind of an 8-year-old. Walker also said he had had a problem with inappropriately touching girls since he was 14.
He reportedly said he had desires to touch jail nurses but that too many people were around and he knew that he would get in trouble.
Walker said he knew that his "touching" habit was wrong, although he found it sexually stimulating. The psychologist determined that Walker was able to appreciate the charges against him.
"Though no formal mental ability testing was administered, his vocabulary, word usage and conceptual thinking are sufficient to serve him in his current defense," the psychologist wrote in the 1992 report.
Walker said he wished to plead insanity in his defense, defining that as: "It means I did it but I need help . . . and I'm sick."
The psychologist wrote that Walker might suffer from a sexual disorder but appeared to have an ability to control it.
Walker also reported during the competency evaluation that he had some thoughts of suicide, although he didn't want to hurt his parents by doing so. He said he had tried to cut his wrists in the past, but the psychologist didn't see any significant scarring on his wrists.
In April 1989, Walker was convicted of an indecent exposure that occurred in October 1988. He was sentenced to three years in prison and was released in February 1992.
In September 1983, he pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of outraging public decency, which was reduced from a felony count of lewd molestation. He received a one-year suspended sentence.
Nicole Marshall 581-8459
[email protected]
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One down, still way too many to go.
Suspect in sexual attack dies after hanging himself
By NICOLE MARSHALL
Tulsa World Staff Writer
1/21/2006
He was arrested in the Tuesday night assault and kidnapping of a woman outside a Tulsa store. A registered sex offender who was arrested in connection with a kidnapping and sexual assault died Friday, one day after he hanged himself with a sheet at the Tulsa Jail.
Timothy Lee Walker, 42, was pronounced dead at 1:07 p.m., Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Tim Albin said. Kidnapping, attempted rape and forcible sodomy charges were filed against Walker about 12:30 p.m. Friday, but they were dismissed later in the day after he died.
Walker was booked into the Tulsa Jail on Wednesday on allegations that he kidnapped a woman from the Walgreens parking lot at 6415 E. Pine St. and sexually assaulted her Tuesday night.
The 25-year-old woman was talking on her cellular phone with her boss when she was approached by an armed man. Her boss heard her scream, so he called the police and then drove to the store.
The kidnapper made the woman get into her car and drive to Mohawk Park. Once there, he sexually assaulted her by forcing her to perform oral sex and then made her drive back to the area of the store.
When the woman's boss saw the car return to the area, he alerted police officers, and they rescued the woman and arrested Walker.
A jailer found Walker hanging from his bunk in his cell about 5 p.m. Thursday. Jail employees cut him down and tried to resuscitate him.
An ambulance took Walker in critical condition to Hillcrest Medical Center, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit. No one else was in the cell when Walker hanged himself, Albin said.
Walker's arrest report indicates that he initially was combative and suicidal. He met with a mental health worker, who cleared him to be booked, and he was not on suicide watch at the jail, Albin said.
Walker has a history of mental retardation and once was a resident of the now-closed Hissom Memorial Center, court records show. He previously was ruled competent to stand trial, and his sexual battery, burglary and indecent exposure convictions led to prison sentences.
Walker registered as a sex offender after his release from prison in June, having served 13 years of a 20-year sentence. He had been convicted of two counts of sexual battery for separate 1992 attacks on women at two Tulsa parks.
Before Walker was convicted in that case, a judge ordered that he undergo a competency evaluation after a defense attorney cited his history of mental retardation.
During questioning by a psychologist in 1992, Walker said he had completed the seventh grade, had never worked and had never lived alone.
He said he was treated at Children's Medical Center as a child and then was placed at the L.E. Rader Center and then Hissom Memorial Center until 1982.
The psychologist's report said Walker said he was sick and needed help and that he had been told that he had the mind of an 8-year-old. Walker also said he had had a problem with inappropriately touching girls since he was 14.
He reportedly said he had desires to touch jail nurses but that too many people were around and he knew that he would get in trouble.
Walker said he knew that his "touching" habit was wrong, although he found it sexually stimulating. The psychologist determined that Walker was able to appreciate the charges against him.
"Though no formal mental ability testing was administered, his vocabulary, word usage and conceptual thinking are sufficient to serve him in his current defense," the psychologist wrote in the 1992 report.
Walker said he wished to plead insanity in his defense, defining that as: "It means I did it but I need help . . . and I'm sick."
The psychologist wrote that Walker might suffer from a sexual disorder but appeared to have an ability to control it.
Walker also reported during the competency evaluation that he had some thoughts of suicide, although he didn't want to hurt his parents by doing so. He said he had tried to cut his wrists in the past, but the psychologist didn't see any significant scarring on his wrists.
In April 1989, Walker was convicted of an indecent exposure that occurred in October 1988. He was sentenced to three years in prison and was released in February 1992.
In September 1983, he pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of outraging public decency, which was reduced from a felony count of lewd molestation. He received a one-year suspended sentence.
Nicole Marshall 581-8459
[email protected]