Barbara Barrick says her husband, Bobby, died in a hospital days after members of the McCurtain County Sheriff's Department shocked him with a stun gun.
Barbara Barrick speaks to the media in front of the McCurtain County Sheriff's Office regarding a wrongful death civil rights lawsuit she filed against the McCurtain County Board of County Commissioners, McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy as well as several sheriff's deputies and other parties on Thursday, April 20, 2023, in Idabel, Okla. IDABEL, Okla.
“It’s been a hard year not knowing what happened to my husband,” Barbara Barrick said during a Thursday news conference in front of the sheriff’s office. She praised the “persistent and brave” efforts of local newspaper reporters to find out more about her husband’s arrest and death. The recorded comments from March 6 were captured after the paper’s publisher, Bruce Willingham, says he left a recorder inside the room after a county commissioner’s meeting because he suspected the group was continuing county business after the meeting ended, in violation of the state’s Open Meeting Act. They included discussion of “two or three hit men.”
McCurtain County is in far southeast Oklahoma, in the forested foothills of the Ouachita mountains, bordering Arkansas and Texas. The part of the state is often referred to as “Little Dixie,” because of the influence in the area from white Southerners who migrated there after the Civil War, and Barbara Barrett’s lawyer suggested Thursday that racial tension may have played a role in her husband’s death.
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