Couple found severely beaten in Tulsa home

Tulsa police are investigating the violent beating of an elderly couple in their home Wednesday.

Police say they got a call just after 4 p.m. from a relative who found the couple injured in their home in the 3300 block of East Virgin Street.

Police say the door to their home had been kicked in. A 90-year old man and his 85-year old wife were severely beaten. EMSA officials say they are both in critical condition at a Tulsa hospital.

The suspects took several items from the home and the couple’s vehicle. Officers are looking for a red 2001 Plymouth Breeze, Oklahoma Tag 402GCV.

By Wednesday night, police said the man had regained consciousness, and was working with investigators to piece together what happened.

Relatives of the couple stopped by every day to check on the couple, and told police they were just fine as late as 6:30 Tuesday evening. Police say nobody can remember seeing the couple's vehicle after noon Wednesday, so investigators think the crime happened sometime Wednesday morning.

"It's a terrible crime," Capt. Dave Roberts, Tulsa Police Department, said. "They were beaten pretty severely."

"I think it's a shame," Dennis Harris, who lives down the street from the couple, said.

With no major leads, officers were going door to door Wednesday evening, asking neighbors if they saw anything.

"That's when I remembered seeing a car turn into their driveway earlier in the day," Duane Hennen, who lives across the street from the couple, said.

Police still aren't sure if that vehicle Hennen saw belonged to the attackers, or to Meals On Wheels volunteers who deliver food to the couple everyday.

"It's really worrying for not only the people involved, but for the many, many elderly people that live up and down this street," Hennen said.

Nobody seems to have any idea why the couple was targeted.

"It may have just been random," Roberts said. "We don't have any reason to believe anyone had anything against them or anything like that, or that they had done anything that led to them being targeted."

"It's just really tragic to see this," Hennen said. "It's terrible how old they are that someone would go to such an extent. You could hold this poor man down with one finger you wouldn't have to beat him half to death to rob him."

Police want anyone with information to call this tip line number 918-798-8477.