Tulsa Prosecutor Recovering After Being Stabbed By Daughter

Tulsa District Legal professional candidate Steve Kunzweiler, left, chats together with his daughter Jennifer Kunzweiler throughout his watch celebration within the Republican runoff election on Aug. 26, 2014, in Tulsa, Okla. Kunzweiler was recovering Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, at his dwelling in Tulsa, sooner or later after police stated he was stabbed by his grownup daughter. Jennifer Kunzweiler, 30, was arrested following the stabbing at his dwelling, in response to a social media publish Tuesday night time by Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin. (James Gibbard/Tulsa World by way of AP)

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An Oklahoma prosecutor who police stated was stabbed by his grownup daughter, on Wednesday referred to as for extra state funding for psychological sickness packages.

“(Tuesday) my household endured one of many hardest days in our lives,” Tulsa County District Legal professional Steve Kunzweiler stated in an roughly nine-minute assertion to reporters earlier than leaving with out taking questions.

“The elected leaders of our state, the elected leaders of our state Legislature have to make this a precedence,” and enhance funding for psychological well being remedy, stated Kunzweiler, 60, who confirmed no seen signal of the assault.

Jennifer Kunzweiler, 30, was arrested following the stabbing at Kunzweiler’s dwelling Tuesday, Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin stated on Twitter.

“Tulsa Police has felony jurisdiction and can work this case like all different circumstances,” Franklin wrote.

Police Capt. Richard Meulenberg stated Wednesday that Jennifer Kunzweiler was taken to a hospital after her arrest on the household dwelling, the place she additionally lived. She was handled for self-inflicted cuts sustained earlier than she stabbed her father within the arm and midsection.

A motive for the stabbing remained underneath investigation, in response to Meulenberg.

“We all know there's some psychological sickness right here,” Meulenberg stated, “however we haven’t interviewed her” to find out a motive.

Jennifer Kunzweiler remained hospitalized Wednesday and can probably face a cost of home violence with a harmful weapon when launched, Meulenberg stated.

Meulenberg stated Tulsa police haven't any report of earlier felony contact with Jennifer Kunzweiler and on-line courtroom information present no costs on her report.

Steve Kunzweiler, who was first elected district legal professional in 2014 and received reelection in 2018, is unopposed for reelection in November.

The stabbing is the third of an elected official in Oklahoma in recent times.

Tulsa District Choose Sharon Holmes was wounded in a stabbing at her dwelling by her grownup daughter, Adrienne Smith, in 2019.

State Labor Commissioner Mark Costello was killed in a 2015 when he was stabbed in a restaurant car parking zone in Oklahoma Metropolis by his grownup son, Christian Costello, in 2015.

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