Police find five family members stabbed to death

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – Oklahoma police responding to a 911 call in which no one spoke found a gruesome scene at a suburban Tulsa home – five members of a family dead or dying from stabbing and a sixth wounded but alive near the front door.

Broken Arrow Police Cpl. Leon Calhoun said Thursday that two teenage sons were apprehended and expected to be charged in the deaths of their parents, three siblings and an attack on a fourth sibling. A fifth sibling, a 2-year-old girl, was found unharmed and transferred to state custody.

“It certainly is shocking,” neighbor Patricia Statham said. “I feel so bad for everyone who walks into that house. You can see it in the faces of the officers when they come out.”

Calhoun identified the parents killed as David and April Bever, ages 52 and 44. He identified one of the two suspects in the deaths as their 18-year-old son, Robert Bever. The other suspect was their 16-year-old son.

The three children found dead were boys ages 12 and 7, and a girl 5 years old, Calhoun said. The two survivors were a 13-year-old girl, who was injured, and the 2-year-old girl.

According to Calhoun, officers responding to a 911 call Wednesday night could not enter the house through the front door but heard moaning and found another way inside. They came across the 13-year-old first and dragged her outside for fear the killer might still be in the house.

And they did the same with two other victims.

A tracking dog led officers to the brothers in woods near the house.