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An Oklahoma County jail inmate confessed to beating his cellmate to death in April and said afterward he was proud of himself, a jail trust investigator reported in a court affidavit.

The 20-year-old inmate, Orenzo Anthony Byrd, was charged May 9 in Oklahoma County District Court with first-degree murder. "I kept hitting him until I felt safe," he said, according to the affidavit.

An Oklahoma County jail inmate confessed to beating his cellmate to death in April and said afterward he was proud of himself, a jail trust investigator reported in a court affidavit.

An Oklahoma County jail inmate confessed to beating his cellmate to death in April and said afterward he was proud of himself, a jail trust investigator reported in a court affidavit.