OSBI Investigating Nowata Homicide

NOWATA, Okla. – The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) was requested by the Nowata Police Department to investigate a homicide. The investigation was initiated after a disturbance this morning at the Casey’s General Store on Ash Street in Nowata.

Just after 8 a.m., officers from the Nowata Police Department responded to an incident that involved a car accident and a fight with an individual identified as Jacob Reid Edward Kimball. Kimball’s infant child was with Kimball at the Casey’s. Officers went to Kimball’s residence in the 200 block of N. McCaffree in Nowata to contact Kimball’s family. At Kimball’s residence officers found the body of a deceased female.

Kimball was taken into custody and transported to the Nowata County Jail. The OSBI investigation is ongoing.