In an email sent to Newsweek, the Oklahoma City Police Department confirmed the man’s death but did not release his name or identified the officers involved in the shooting.
Oklahoma City police officers were involved in a fatal shooting on Friday, in front of an Extra Cash Gold & Loan near West Hefner Road and Pennsylvania Avenue. In an email sent to Newsweek, the Oklahoma City Police Department confirmed the man’s death but did not release his name or identified the officers involved in the shooting. « Officers responded to a call of a disturbance in the 2100 block of W Hefner Rd. around noon today in reference to a man bothering customers outside a store, » the department said in its statement. « Upon arrival officers located a man matching the description who was holding a knife. » Police officials told KOCO 5 News that when officers first arrived to the scene, they encountered a man with a knife. As the man walked closer to the officers, they backed away and called for backup.
