Law enforcement involved in tense situations over weekend in central Oklahoma
A deputy responded to a welfare check after authorities said a woman was acting irrationally.
By Shelby Montgomery
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KOCO) — Authorities are expected to release more details after a tense few days for law enforcement in central Oklahoma.
A woman shot a Grady County deputy responding to a welfare check on Friday. Then, on Saturday, a man held a woman and a child hostage in Oklahoma City.
The hostage situation started early Saturday morning at a home near Northeast 34th and Lindsey after a fight escalated. The situation turned into an hourslong standoff with police.
The suspect escaped through a window but didn’t make it far.
“When he exited the house, he presented a threat to the officers who then discharged their firearms toward the suspect, hitting them,” Capt. Valerie Littlejohn said.
Authorities took the suspect to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
On Friday, law enforcement found themselves in another standoff situation outside a Grady County home.
A deputy responded to a welfare check after authorities said a woman was acting irrationally. The deputy detained the suspect, but authorities said she escaped from her handcuffs, shot the deputy and a bystander and barricaded herself in a patrol car.
The woman surrendered after a six-hour standoff.
Authorities said the deputy and bystander suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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