Oklahoma
Video shows Oklahoma principal tackling gunman in school lobby
Oklahoma
Oklahoma police set up sting for stolen property
TULSA, Okla. (KOKH) — One person has been arrested after allegedly trying to sell stolen property on Facebook.
On April 10, an officer with the Tulsa Police Department saw a post on Facebook Marketplace for a projector lens that was stolen from the condemned Promenade Mall.
The lens, which is worth $20,000, was listed for just $500.
The officer used a fake Facebook account to message the seller and arranged a trade for the lens in exchange for a minibike.
Earlier this week, 19-year-old Zachery Scrivner met with the officer and was arrested.
According to the police department, Scrivner said he knew the lens was stolen but decided to try to sell it anyway.
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He was arrested on a complaint of knowingly concealing stolen property.
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Oklahoma principal shot disarming ex-student with semi-automatic guns
An Oklahoma principal has been praised for preventing a tragedy at his high school by charging and disarming a former student armed with two semi-automatic handguns, an episode captured on dramatic surveillance video.
Kirk Moore, principal of Pauls Valley high school, was shot in the leg as he wrestled the attacker, a 20-year-old said by court documents to be obsessed with the 1999 shooting at Colorado’s Columbine high school in which 12 students and one teacher were killed.
Authorities in Garvin county, about 60 miles south of Oklahoma City, said Moore’s action of racing from his office in the school’s lobby, and throwing himself on top of the suspect, undoubtedly prevented a tragedy.
“It doesn’t surprise me the actions that he took, but it is amazing, the actions that he took,” Don May, chief of the Pauls Valley police department, told NBC News.
“There’s not a doubt in my mind that he saved kids’ lives.”
Investigators said the alleged attacker, Victor Lee Hawkins, fired several shots before he was disarmed by Moore and another staff member who arrived to help. Nobody was hurt other than the principal, who needed hospital treatment for a wound to his lower right leg.
Hawkins remained at the Garvin county detention center on Tuesday on $1m bail, NBC reported, awaiting a court appearance on 8 May. He faces charges of shooting with intent to kill, feloniously pointing a firearm and carrying a weapon to a public assembly.
The incident occurred shortly before 2.20pm on 7 April, according to an arrest affidavit signed by special agent Meric Mussett of the Oklahoma state bureau of investigation.
About 20 minutes earlier, Mussett wrote, Hawkins, a 2025 graduate of the high school, took two of his father’s weapons from a closet in their home and drove to the campus “with the intent of killing students, facility [sic], and finally himself”.
Hawkins “entered the school, pointed his pistol, and yelled for everyone to get on the ground”, Mussett said, adding that he pointed the gun at a female student in the lobby and pulled the trigger, but the weapon malfunctioned.
“Hawkins then stepped out from behind the vending machine and pointed his gun at a male student in the foyer. Principal Moore then came out of his office and charged at Hawkins.”
Mussett said Hawkins told him he wanted to “conduct his own school shooting like the Columbine shooters did”, referring to the 1999 Colorado tragedy in which two teenage assailants took their own lives after murdering students and staff.
“Hawkins did not like Moore, therefore Hawkins went to the school to kill Moore,” Mussett wrote.
A statement on its website under the heading “safe school” details Pauls Valley’s preparations for such an incident.
“Throughout the past decade… the high school has also developed and practiced safety measures to be taken should there be an intruder or dangerous individual on campus,” it said. “It is our foremost concern that our students feel and are safe at school.”
Several former students told Oklahoma City’s ABC News affiliate KOCO they were not surprised by Moore’s action.
“If some student was to get harmed, he would definitely take a bullet for him. I believe that,” Spencer Flinn said.
In a statement reported by NBC, Moore said he was grateful for “an outpouring of love and support” that followed the incident.
“Like so many educators around the country, we prepare for these events through training and careful assessment of the threats,” he said. “I am grateful that my instincts and training, as well as God’s hand, were available to me.”
Moore said he was “healthy and recovering”, and looking forward to returning to work.
Oklahoma
One person shot dead after domestic dispute in southwest Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (KOKH) — One person is dead after a domestic dispute led to a shooting in southwest Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City Police said officers responded to calls about a shooting at a home in the 3700 block of Stable Court near S Mustang Road and SW 44th St in southwest Oklahoma City Tuesday night.
Police said a fight broke out at the residence and moved into the front yard. The suspect shot the victim, who died at the scene.
OKCPD said the suspected shooter is in custody and investigators are currently working to determine what led to the dispute.
Police were unable to provide any details about the suspect or their relationship to the victim.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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