An arrest warrant was issued on August 30 in the Beckham County Detention Center for a 55-year-old Elk City man after being charged with violating the Mary Rippy Violent Crime Offenders Registration Act.
On July 26, an Elk City Police Department officer was contacted by the ECPD sex offender and violent offender registration lists coordinator with information that a violent offender had registered but not registered for the first six months of living in Elk City.
The suspect was Kevin Scott Harris. The officer recognized the address on the 100 block of North Adams as the residence in question for the offense that sent Harris to prison.
Harris had been convicted in 2021 after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of 32-year-old Robert Turnbow.
Initially, Harris was charged with first-degree murder in the case. Much of the community held differing opinions on it, with some believing that Harris had acted in self-defense.
Court records from the case detailed that Turnbow had brought a third person to the home of Harris and had been shot around midnight on August 1, 2019.
His paperwork showed that Harris had been convicted on April 29, 2021, and that he is to remain on parole and probation monitoring until April 29, 2031. Online records from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists Harris’s discharge date as August 16, 2022.
His previous listed address was on the 100 block of Bluestem in Weatherford, Oklahoma.
Harris reportedly came to the ECPD on July 25 to register and allegedly admitted that he had lived at the Elk City residence for approximately six months.
Harris said someone from the Custer County Sheriff’s Office had come to his mother’s home in Weatherford.
“He only claimed that he had forgotten about the registration and had moved back to his original home. It is required that all registers notify three days prior to moving, in writing, to the Oklahoma Department of Correction and local law enforcement,” the ECPD coordinator wrote.
The ECPD coordinator, with the guidance of a detective, believed that Harris had not complied with either the ECPD or the CCSO for at least six months.
A CCSO Major confirmed that their office had also not received contact from Harris, the affidavit states.
A search warrant allegedly showed that Harris had water service hooked up to the N Adams residence on October 3, 2022, and is currently active.
If you have information about Harris’s whereabouts, contact the Elk City Police Department at (580)225-1212 or the nearest law enforcement agency.
