In unrelated recent incidents, Oklahoma City policemen, believing in both cases that suspects had guns, fired and wounded a man and a teenager.The man was shot in the head on Saturday, and was being treated at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center.
He died on Tuesday.
The other suspect in an unrelated incident was shot in the hand on Tuesday after a policeman believed he was reaching for a gun.
Daryl Ray Wilson, 18, suffered a head wound at about 10:30 p.m. on Saturday after an Oklahoma City police officer heard gunshots at an apartment complex.
Officer Grant Brooks was responding to an unrelated call in the 6200 block of NW 63rd Street, a police spokesman said, when he heard a rapid succession of gunshots a block away.
Capt. Steve McCool, the Oklahoma City Police Department spokesman, said witnesses told Officer Brooks the shots came from the Twin Lakes Apartment Complex, 6103 NW 63rd St.
The apartment complex is within the city limits of Warr Acres.
Upon arriving at the parking lot of the complex, Officer Brooks saw a car with three people inside, the police spokesman said, and the car was backing out of a parking space.
The driver accelerated the car in reverse, the spokesman said, and Officer Brooks turned on his lights and siren, and instructed the driver to stop.
Even so, the driver continued to accelerate in reverse, and crashed into another vehicle, Capt. McCool explained.
It was then that Officer Brooks approached the car with his gun drawn, the police spokesman continued, and ordered occupants of the car to show their hands and to get out of the vehicle.
After a short delay, Mr. Wilson got out of the car from the driver’s side, Capt. McCool said, and then made a sudden, upward movement with his right arm.
Officer Brooks reacted by firing twice, the police spokesman stated, hitting Mr. Wilson in the head once.
Capt. McCool said police found a gun in the car, but do not think Mr. Wilson was armed when he stepped out of the car.
An investigation has determined that shell casings found near the apartment complex are of the same type and caliber as the ammunition found in the gun.
Capt. McCool said investigators are trying to determine if those shell casings are related to the gunshots Officer Brooks heard.
The other two people in the car were questioned by police and released.
Capt. McCool said Officer Brooks acted appropriately by going into Warr Acres to investigate the gunshots after first asking dispatchers to notify police in the northwest Oklahoma City suburb.
Officer Brooks, who has been with the Oklahoma City department for about a year, has been placed on administrative leave as an investigation of the incident continues.
In the other incident, Officer Aaron Ulman had responded to a call at about 4 p.m. on Tuesday that said a Hispanic man with a gun was chasing a Black man in the vicinity of NE 53rd Street and N. Rhode Island Avenue.
Capt. McCool, the police department spokesman, said, after arriving on the scene, Officer Ulman saw a group standing in a yard.
The officer noticed, the police spokesman said, that a Hispanic man was among the group, and he noticed the man had a bulge under his shirt in the waistline area.
Officer Ulman ordered everyone on the ground, Capt. McCool said, and told Fabian Gomez, 13, the suspect, to put his hands in the air.
“At that point,” Capt. McCool said, “the suspect reached under his shirt, and pulled out a gun.”
Officer Ulman fired, striking the suspect in the hand, the spokesman said.
The suspect was taken by ambulance to the University of Oklahoma Medical Center for treatment.
Investigators determined that the suspect’s weapon was a BB gun designed to appear like a semi-automatic pistol, Capt. McCool said.
After Fabian Gomez was treated and released by the hospital, he was taken to police headquarters, charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, and placed into the Berry House, a juvenile center.
Officer Ulman has been placed on routine administrative leave pending an investigation.
