BY ANDY TAYLOR
chronicle@taylornews.org

NOWATA, Okla. — A Tulsa, Okla., man will return to Nowata County District Court on Friday, Aug. 13, after a judge determined last week that enough evidence exists to have the man bound over for jury trial in the vehicle deaths of three area people in May 2009.

Charlie Davis Strong, Jr., of Tulsa, is charged with three counts of second degree murder stemming from a deadly hit-and-run collision with two other vehicles on U.S. 169 highway near Lenapah, Okla., in May 2009. That collision left three people dead, including Gene Hobbs, age 70, of South Coffeyville, Okla.; Kyler Blagg, age 15, of Caney; and Kyler’s mother, Amy Blagg, age 44, also of Caney. The wreck also left several other passengers in the Hobbs and Blagg vehicles injured.

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A third person has died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle collision that took place in Nowata County on Saturday, May 9.

Gene Hobbs, 70, of South Coffeyville, Okla., died Sunday, June 5, at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Okla., where he had been undergoing treatment of injuries since the collision.
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