“It’s a unhappy day for the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Workplace,” Sheriff Tommie Johnson III mentioned throughout a information convention Monday as he held again tears.
The 2 deputies, described as veteran officers, have been shot after interacting with the suspect as they served a lockout order, a directive from a courtroom to depart a residence.
“We had two deputies that have been serving papers, lockout papers, contacted the person on the entrance door then went round to the again door and that’s when the capturing started,” Johnson mentioned throughout the information convention.
When one deputy was shot, the opposite deputy tried to get the injured deputy away from the gunfire, and he was struck as properly.
The suspect fled the scene and was ultimately taken into custody after the pursuit ended at a Tinker Air Power Base entrance, in keeping with the sheriff.
Tinker Air Power base officers despatched their condolences to the sheriff’s division and the households of the officers concerned within the capturing, in keeping with an announcement.