According to the Sheriff’s Office 53-year-old, Larry Sanders reported killing Jimmy Knighten by the South Canadian River, which is south of Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Sanders said he and Knighten had been noodling in the river July 9 when a confrontation occurred and Sanders struck and strangled Knighten.
After Sanders’ report, he was arrested on an outstanding warrant and booked into the Pontotoc County Jail.
That same day, Pontotoc and Seminole Counties’ deputies and OSBI agents searched the area and found Knighten’s body. Sanders was arrested for First Degree of Murder and the cause of death will be determined.