A 45-year-old man accused of a 2022 Oklahoma City murder has been returned to Texas to face prosecution on separate sex crimes charges, according to the Collin County Sheriff’s Office.
Sergeant Jessica Pond, the agency’s public affairs officer, told The Dallas Express that Anthony Dewayne Taylor was already in custody in Oklahoma for the murder charges but was transferred to Collin County Jail to face prosecution for alleged sex crime offenses on a warrant out of Frisco. Pond added that after those cases are disposed of, Taylor will be returned to Oklahoma.
Taylor, 45, was booked into Collin County custody on October 8, according to jail records. He faces two second-degree felony charges — sexual assault of a child and sexual performance of a child by employment, inducement, or authorization. His total bond was set at $200,000, with both bonds carrying conditions.
ANTHONY DEWAYNE TAYLOR
Anthony Dewayne Taylor, 45, booked into Collin County Jail on October 8, 2025 | Image via Collin County Sheriff’s Office
Court filings from the 416th District Court show both cases are classified under “Crimes Against Children” and were reactivated on February 13, 2025. The presiding judge, Andrea Thompson, has scheduled Taylor’s pretrial hearing for January 9, 2026, and a jury trial for January 20, 2026.
Taylor is represented by court-appointed attorney John B. “Brad” Setterberg. Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis is listed as the prosecutor of record.
In a 2023 report, Oklahoma City police alleged that Taylor shot and killed 41-year-old Kentrell Kindred at the Plaza Inn motel in October 2022. Investigators reportedly identified Taylor as the primary suspect through surveillance footage from the Plaza Inn and a nearby America’s Best Value Inn. Taylor was taken into custody later that month after a brief flight from authorities, according to a February 2023 report by FOX 25 in Oklahoma City.
That same report stated that Taylor’s son, Anthony Dewayne Taylor III, was later arrested as an accessory after allegedly pawning jewelry to help his father evade police.
The following year, the younger Taylor was sentenced to two years in federal prison for unlawful possession of a machine gun, according to a June 7, 2024 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma. Federal prosecutors alleged that the young man had modified a handgun with a “switch” that converted it into a fully automatic weapon, a device authorities said poses a significant public danger.
Taylor now awaits trial in Collin County on the child sex crime charges. If convicted in Texas, Taylor could face additional prison time before being returned to Oklahoma to stand trial for the 2022 murder.