Police identify officers, suspect in rolling shootout

— Suspect engages in multiple gunfights with police during chase across Southside OKC

OKLAHOMA CITY — One suspect led police on a winding chase across Southside OKC Thursday, stopping several times to shoot at pursuing officers who returned fire.

Eventually, the suspect ended the chase at his house where he still tried to shoot it out with police. After an hours-long standoff, he was captured and sent to an area hospital for treatment from gunshot wounds.

Three Oklahoma City Police officers who engaged in the multiple shootouts with the suspect are now on routine paid administrative leave pending an investigation.

Shootouts

Police allege that when officers executed a traffic stop near SW 59th and May Avenue at 12:54 AM on Thursday, October 31, the passenger in the front seat stepped out of the vehicle and was detained.

However, the driver, now identified as 43-year-old Timothy Foster, at first stepped out but then jumped back into the driver’s seat and sped off, which started the pursuit, according to police.

As the chase wound through the area “the driver stopped on more than one occasion and opened fire on the pursuing officers. On at least one of those stops, officers returned fire,” said MSgt Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department in a press release.

The suspect ended the chase at his home at 2104 SW 66th Street, parking his car, running to his front door and engaging in a gunfight with officers one more time before retreating into his home.

An hours-long standoff ended when members of the OKCPD Tactical Team entered the home where they found Foster lying on the floor. It was then that they transported Foster to an area hospital.

“Upon release from the hospital, Mr. Foster will be booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center on four counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon on police officers, possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony, possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony, and numerous traffic charges related to the pursuit,” said Knight.

Oklahoma County Detention Center records did not show Foster’s booking yet as of 10:30 AM Saturday.

Officers involved

OKCPD has identified its officers involved. They are:

  • Robert Allen – 17 years of service.
  • Officer Dalton Johnson – four years of service.
  • Officer Joanna Weiss – two years of service.

For the Oklahoma City Police Department in 2024, this is the 9th police shooting.

The internal investigation of the three officers now begins as they go on routine administrative leave.

In police shootings – internally termed “officer-involved shootings” – the officer goes on paid administrative leave while OKCPD investigators gather evidence.

Then, that information is turned over to Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Behenna who has determined that all officer-involved shootings will go before a grand jury to decide whether to bring charges against the officers.

Once that decision has been made, the internal investigation moves forward after questions about whether the shooting was a crime have been resolved.


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