YOU’RE WATCHING KOCO 5. BREAKING NEWS IS HAPPENING NOW. WE DO HAVE A LOT OF BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT AS YOU JOIN US HERE AT 10:00. AND WE START WITH THE STANDOFF IN THE SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA CITY NEIGHBORHOOD. KOCO’S PATRICK TALBOT JOINS US LIVE IN THE AREA OF SOUTHWEST 96. AND PENN AND PATRICK, YOU JUST SPOKE WITH POLICE. YEAH, THAT’S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. WE’RE AT MOORE WEST JUNIOR HIGH RIGHT NOW. THAT’S IN THE AREA OF SOUTHWEST 89TH AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. THERE IS A VERY, VERY LARGE LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD BEHIND ME. I’M GOING TO STEP OUT SO YOU GUYS CAN SEE WHAT’S GOING ON. MULTIPLE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE ON THE SCENE RIGHT NOW. AND ACCORDING TO POLICE, THIS ALL STEMS FROM AN INCIDENT IN WHICH A SUSPECT SHOT AT AN OFFICER, THAT OFFICER RETURNING FIRE. WE JUST SPOKE WITH OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE WHO GAVE US MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON AND THE STEPS THEY TOOK TO MAKE SURE OTHER NEIGHBORS WERE SAFE. WE’VE EVACUATED THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDINGS, SO WE DON’T THINK ANYBODY IS IN ANY DANGER RIGHT NOW WITH THE SITUATION AS IT STANDS. BUT THE LAST THING WE WANT IS TO HAVE BULLETS FLYING THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD AT ANY POINT. SO WE’RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO BRING THIS TO A PEACEFUL RESOLUTION. AND AS YOU JUST HEARD RIGHT THERE, OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE HOPING IN THIS QUICKLY AND PEACEFULLY. THIS IS STILL A VERY, VERY ACTIVE SCENE. THEY’RE ALL BACK THERE BEHIND TRUCKS RIGHT THERE. WE’RE WORKING TO GATHER MORE INFORMATION TO FIGURE OUT WHAT HAPPENED. WE DO KNOW THAT THAT SUSPECT WAS IN A BACKYARD. ACCORDING TO OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE. WE’LL CONTINUE TO BRING YOU THE LATEST RIGHT HER
Police were involved in a standoff after a shooting involving an officer in a southwest Oklahoma City neighborhood. At about 5:30 p.m., the Oklahoma City Police Department said officers were responding to a domestic situation at a residence near Southwest 96th Street and South Pennsylvania Avenue. The situation involved a man with a gun. Police said a suspect and a police officer exchanged gunfire, but the officer was not hit. Police said the officer only fired one shot, but it wasn’t clear if the man had been hit by the gunfire. As of 9:30 p.m., police were involved in a standoff with the man. The suspect was in the backyard of a home near where the incident occurred and was unwilling to come out. >> Video Below: WATCH FULL: Standoff underway in backyard of southwest OKC home after officer-involved shooting”We are doing our best right now to talk him into surrendering peacefully,” MSgt. Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department said. Police confirmed the man was alive and was moving around. Homes immediately surrounding the area were evacuated. Police said there didn’t appear to be any threat to the public. >> Video below shows a look at the sceneTop Headlines 3 people, including an Oklahoma trooper and 4-year-old child, killed in crash on I-35 in OKC What we know about the recovery mission for American woman who reportedly fell overboard in the Bahamas Principal shot by former student in lobby of Pauls Valley High School: What we know TIMELINE: Oklahoma to see several days of severe storm risks starting later this week Former FedEx driver pleads guilty to killing 7-year-old Oklahoma girl in Texas
OKLAHOMA CITY – Police were involved in a standoff after a shooting involving an officer in a southwest Oklahoma City neighborhood. At about 5:30 p.m., the Oklahoma City Police Department said officers were responding to a domestic situation at a residence near Southwest 96th Street and South Pennsylvania Avenue. The situation involved a man with a gun. Police said a suspect and a police officer exchanged gunfire, but the officer was not hit. Police said the officer only fired one shot, but it wasn’t clear if the man had been hit by the gunfire. As of 9:30 p.m., police were involved in a standoff with the man. The suspect was in the backyard of a home near where the incident occurred and was unwilling to come out. >> Video Below: WATCH FULL: Standoff underway in backyard of southwest OKC home after officer-involved shooting”We are doing our best right now to talk him into surrendering peacefully,” MSgt. Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department said. Police confirmed the man was alive and was moving around. Homes immediately surrounding the area were evacuated. Police said there didn’t appear to be any threat to the public. >> Video below shows a look at the sceneTop Headlines 3 people, including an Oklahoma trooper and 4-year-old child, killed in crash on I-35 in OKC What we know about the recovery mission for American woman who reportedly fell overboard in the Bahamas Principal shot by former student in lobby of Pauls Valley High School: What we know TIMELINE: Oklahoma to see several days of severe storm risks starting later this week Former FedEx driver pleads guilty to killing 7-year-old Oklahoma girl in Texas
