Overview
- Body-camera video shows an armed Oklahoma County deputy confronting a man inside a vacant Sunset Lane home on Oct. 1 before the suspect ran through the house and dove head-first through a closed window to get away.
- The deputy ordered the suspect to kneel and warned he could be shot, but the suspect did not comply and escaped after shattering the window.
- Investigators say the man was stealing copper from appliances and walls and that the back door of the vacant property had been forced open when deputies arrived.
- Officers searched by patrol car, launched a drone and checked nearby residences without finding the suspect, though they recovered a backpack that contained a California driver's license used to identify him.
- Sheriff's office footage was posted publicly to seek leads and underscore how copper theft targets vacant homes, with officials saying the identified man has prior theft, drug and assault charges in Oklahoma County.