Man with lengthy criminal history arrested for breaking into Norman home while OU students were sleeping inside

NORMAN, Okla. ( KFOR ) — A man accused of breaking into a home where five female OU students were asleep and entering one of their bedrooms, previously faced charges for armed robbery, kidnapping and first-degree murder.

Norman police arrested 33-year-old Raymond Hickman Wednesday after they say he broke into a home shared by five female OU undergraduate students just before 1 a.m., and entered one of their bedrooms.

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The arrest affidavit obtained by News 4 says Hickman told police he broke-in to the house because he wanted to ask "the girls" to "help" him.

It did not specify what Hickman allegedly wanted them to help him with.

Norman police say after Hickman entered the home through a broken window, he made his way into a bedroom where one of the women was sleeping, then quickly ran out of the house.

A short time later, Norman police say officers found Hickman walking a nearby street, and arrested him.

In the arrest affidavit, officers said Hickman, "spoke of auditory and visual hallucinations," allegedly telling officers he thought he was being attacked by dogs while sitting alone in their squad car.

When they searched his backpack, officers say they found "a glass pipe commonly used to smoke illicit drugs" inside.

Oklahoma state court records show Hickman has been in and out of jail at least 10 times since 2013.

He was most recently behind bars in October, while facing drug charges in Cleveland County.

Records show he was released from jail there less than two weeks before he allegedly broke into the OU students' house.

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News 4 reported in 2019 when Hickman was accused of robbing an Oklahoma City gas station clerk at gunpoint, before allegedly stealing someone's car.

A jury found him guilty of armed robbery in 2020.

A judge sentenced him to five years in jail, but he ended up getting released in February 2024, nearly a year before the end of his sentence.

In 2018, Hickman was arrested and charged with kidnapping and robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, but records show the charges were dismissed because a witness failed to testify in court.

Hickman faced a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when Oklahoma City police accused Hickman of breaking into a home, shooting and killing a woman inside.

"It was two men, came in, told us to give them their money," the woman's roommate, who survived the shooting, told News 4 in 2017. "And we didn't have none and she got shot. It could have been me. It could have been me."

The Oklahoma County District Attorney's Office charged Hickman with first degree murder, robbery and assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

When the case went to trial, a jury found him not guilty on all three counts.

Oklahoma Department of Corrections records show, since 2013, Hickman has been convicted of at least nine different crimes that landed him either on probation, or with a prison sentence.

Four of those cases resulted in five-year prison sentences.

Hickman served three of those five-year sentences concurrently and was released in 2022 after spending less than two years behind bars.

In the fourth case, the 2019 armed robbery conviction, records show he was released from prison in 2024 after serving four years of his five year sentence.