A Jackson County jury has convicted an Altus man on felony murder and drug charges.

The jury Friday found 29-year-old Patrick Robinson guilty in the May 2009 shooting and stabbing death of 34-year-old Hai Phan while robbing him outside a southwest Lawton apartment complex.

Robinson acknowledged he was a drug dealer — but said he didn’t know his four co-defendants planned to rob Phan.

Co-defendant Sedrick Sanders pleaded guilty to murder and conspiracy charges in the case and is now serving a life sentence. The other three co-defendants pleaded guilty to charges ranging from conspiracy to commit robbery to being an accessory after the fact.

Formal sentencing for Robinson is set for July 28.

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A Marine corporal on two-week leave from Afghanistan was stabbed in the parking lot of a strip club east of Stillwater.

“At first, I thought hed just punched me. Then I turned around to keep fighting and someone was like, ‘Hey, you just got stabbed,“’ said 22-year-old Damion Galley of Wellston.

A man used a knife to slash Galley’s side at about 2 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot of the Doll House on State Highway 51 east of Stillwater.

Galley said he went outside and found two people trying to fight his friend. They had been making snide comments earlier inside the club, he said.

Galley said he punched one man and broke his jaw. Galley’s brother-in-law Joe Boudreaux said the punch rang across the parking lot.

“One punch, you could hear it way across the parking lot — POW! I was like “holy cow, dude,”  Boudreaux said.

Then Galley was stabbed. The injury caused his lungs to bleed, but Galley was in good condition today at Stillwater Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed. Galley is expected to be released Friday.

Galley plans to return to Afghanistan Monday, he said.

The name of the man whose jaw was broken could not be obtained. His condition could not be verified.

The Payne County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the altercation.

Sheriff R. B. Hauf did not return several calls Thursday about the altercation, but the sheriff’s office released a radio log summary that claimed deputies found blood in the Doll House parking lot at about 2:20 a.m. Thursday.

“It appears someone poured some water over it to wash it away,” a deputy wrote for the summary.

The log states a man named Mark Haskins is a suspect in the stabbing.

Stillwater police pursued Haskins, 27, in a sport utility vehicle east from 12th Avenue and Washington Street to 19th Avenue and Jardot Road, the log says. They lost track of him, but sheriff’s deputies arrested him later Thursday, Boudreaux said. Details of the arrest were not available.

Haskins was in the Payne County Jail, a jailer confirmed Thursday afternoon. He was being held on complaints of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, destruction of property and public intoxication. His bond was scheduled to be set Friday afternoon.

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The tears 16 year old KaleighLynn Fryer couldnt produce the morning she found her father dead in a pool of blood burst forth Monday when she was convicted of his murder.

It took a Logan County jury about two and a half hours to convict Fryer of first degree murder. She was 15 at the time of her fathers death. Jurors recommended she be sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. A formal sentencing will be June 17 at Logan County Courthouse.

Fryer’s married boyfriend, Jerry Jerone Chiles Jr., 22, admitted to stabbing Lewis Keith Fryer, 50, to death in the man’s bedroom about 3 a.m. on May 12, 2010. Chiles testified against Kaleigh Fryer in return for a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Chiles testified Fryer asked him repeatedly to kill her father, left the back door open for him and told him where in the house to find a knife, her father’s keys, a wallet and other items he was instructed to take.

Chiles then stole Lewis Fryer’s car and drove it to south Oklahoma City, where he abandoned it before walking to Crossroads Mall. Chiles testified he called Kaleigh Fryer just before 7 a.m. and asked her to come pick him up at the mall.

She told Chiles there was a lot of blood and that she was going to call 911. Phone records show Kaleigh Fryer did not sleep through the murder at her father’s Guthrie home as she told investigators.

Instead, she checked her voicemail about 3:30 a.m. and used the phone to access the Internet.

Phone records also confirmed Chiles’ claim that he had called Kaleigh Fryer from a pay phone at the mall just before she called 911. She told police she discovered her father’s body when she woke up about 7 a.m.

Investigators noted in their reports on the morning of the murder that Kaleigh Fryer tried to cry while they talked with her but could not produce tears.

She was unable to hold tears back Monday as the jurors were called one by one and affirmed they agreed with the guilty verdict.

During closing arguments, prosecutors described her as a cold, heartless killer who manipulated the simple and childlike Chiles into murdering her father because he was mean to her and made her do chores. Investigators believe Kaleigh Fryer thought she would be able to live with her mother if her father was killed.

“Kaleigh Fryer’s father is dead because she chose Jerry Chiles,” said Lesley March, Logan County assistant district attorney. “Lewis Fryer would be alive today in Guthrie but for Kaleigh’s plan.”

Kaleigh Fryer’s defense attorney, Eric Reynolds, used his closing argument to accuse Chiles of lying to get a lighter sentence for the crime. Reynolds said Chiles likely killed Lewis Fryer because he believed Kaleigh Fryer was pregnant and feared going to jail for having sex with her while she was underage.

“Some people are extremely skilled liars,” Reynolds told the jury. “Jerry Chiles lied to you. He lied to the police. He lied to his girlfriend. He changed his story based on his audience.”

After the verdict was read, Lewis Fryer’s brother, Roy Fryer, said he wanted to thank investigators and prosecutors for doing their jobs and the jury for seeing through Kaleigh Fryer’s lies.

Roy Fryer said the death of one family member at the hands of another has taken a toll.

“We’re a close family,” he said. “We lean on each other like family should. That’s how we will get through this.”

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