November
Clyde Marquette Fields pleaded guilty to the 2020 stabbing murder of Roshauna Deshae Ray during a Payne County Court proceeding earlier this month and was sentenced to 40 years in prison as part of a plea deal in which he avoided a life sentence.
Fields had dumped Ray’s body in the bushes at Mercy Hospital in Logan County on Jan. 5, 2020. The follow-up investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation determined the stabbing had taken place in Stillwater.
He was arrested in Del City and has been in the Logan County Detention Center since his arrest. The charges of desecration of a corpse and assaulting a police officer in Logan County were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
Fields even called 911 before leaving the scene, but it was too late. Ray died of a stab wound to the chest that pierced her aorta.
Judge Steven Kistler in Payne County handled the plea deal on the murder charge. Debra Vincent represented the Logan and Payne County District Attorney’s offices, while Jason Lowe was the defense attorney.
Fields also was sentenced to a year in County Jail for violation of a protection order that led to the murder. The jail time is to run concurrently and be given credit for time served.
Fields must register with the Mary Rippy Violent Offenders program and pay a restitution of $3,625 to the Oklahoma Crime Victims Fund for burial fees. If Fields ever gets out of prison, he is to pay court costs and incarceration fees, and will be on probation for two years upon release from prison.
Fields also pleaded guilty to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon from a May 2022 incident while serving time in jail.
Logan County Judge Louis Duel sentenced Fields to 40 years in prison to run concurrently, with the last 17 years to be suspended, conditioned upon his good behavior. Fields still has the right to appeal.