An Egyptian militant organization which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American oil worker who had lived in Enid for many years.
Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, which now refers to itself as the Sinai Province, said on its official Twitter account Sunday that it killed William Henderson. It published pictures of his passport and two identification cards.
The passport said he was a 58-year-old from Texas and his identification cards said he worked for Texas-based energy company Apache Corp. and Qarun Petroleum Co.
Apache said in August that one of its supervisors was killed in an apparent carjacking in Egypt's Western Desert. The company did not identify the man. It could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Enid News & Eagle in Oklahoma published an obituary for a man named William Henderson in August, saying he "passed suddenly" while working in Egypt. It said he had worked for Apache for 28 years and was 58 when he died.
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