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"Suspect: Tyrone Dale David Woodfork, 20, was arrested a day 
after the attack on complaints of first-degree murder, burglary, 
assault with a dangerous weapon and two complaints of armed 
robbery"  Where's the rape charge?

An 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and battered to 
death by a home invader who also shot her 90-year-old husband in 
the face with a BB gun.

Nancy and Bob Strait, who had celebrated their 65th wedding 
anniversary in December, were discovered by their daughter at 
their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Both the pensioners were rushed to hospital where Mrs Strait, 
who was nearly blind, died from her injuries.

Mr Strait, who served in the 101st Airborne Division in World 
War II, suffered a broken jaw, broken ribs and severe bleeding. 
He is in a serious condition in hospital.

Police have arrested 20-year-old Tyrone Dale David Woodfork in 
connection with the case.

The Straits' distraught family today paid tribute to the pair, 
who grew up in poverty in rural Oklahoma during the Great 
Depression.

They met each other on a blind date on Thanksgiving 1946, 
married a month later and went on to have six children, 18 
grandchildren and about 50 great and great-great grandchildren. 
They had recently welcomed a great-great-great grandchild.

Their daughters Lanora and Andra told Tulsa World that the 
couple were loving and generous people who would do anything for 
anyone.

'Dad never talked, and Mama never quit talking,' Lanora said.

'Whatever she did, it came from the heart,' Andra added.

The pair could be found sitting on their porch singing and 
playing the guitar during warmer summer evenings.

Mr Strait, who had worked for the oil derrick supply company Lee 
C. Moore before retirement, enjoyed woodwork while his wife 
loved making quilts and baking.

They had both been struggling with health problems before the 
attack. Mr Strait had been diagnosed with a terminal kidney 
illness but had outlived the doctor's prognosis.

'He was living because Mother was alive,' Andra told Tulsa World.

The couple had had food poisoning the week before the attack.

'There is no one else who has been through what he's been 
through who is still alive,' Lanora said of her father.

'We pray he doesn't remember.'

Tulsa police believe burglars broke into the Straits' home 
either late Tuesday or early Wednesday last week. They were not 
found until the Wednesday evening.

The home invaders made off with their Dodge Neon, a television 
and $200.

Woodfork was later found hiding in a nearby house after a 
witness spotted the stolen vehicle being driven down the road.

He is being held at Tulsa Jail without bail accused of first-
degree murder, burglary, assault with a dangerous weapon and two 
counts of armed robbery.

'This investigation is far from over,' Officer Jason Willingham 
of the Tulsa police department told Tulsa World. 'We've still 
got a lot of questions that we still need answered.'

Mrs Strait's funeral will be on Friday. The family has set up a 
fund the Nancy Strait and Bob Strait Support Trust to help pay 
for the service and her husband's medical care.

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pasadena-kendrec-mcdade.html

The  Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed hundreds of Pasadena High 
School students on Wednesday with a message of nonviolent civic 
activism, encouraging teens to study hard, vote and resolve 
their issues peacefully.