A former Tulsa reserve deputy who fatally shot an unarmed, restrained suspect after mistaking his gun for his Taser was sentenced to 4 years in prison on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.
On Wednesday, a former Tulsa deputy who fatally shot an unarmed, restrained suspect after mistaking his gun for his Taser was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, the Associated Press reports.
On Wednesday, six months after a volunteer reserve deputy, Bob Bates, shot and killed an unarmed man, Eric Harris, a grand jury indicted Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz on misconduct charges. The New York Times reports that Glanz will step down as sheriff.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation announced on Monday that it is opening a formal inquiry into the sheriff’s office that oversaw Robert C. Bates, the 73-year-old reserve deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris in April, the Associated Press reports.
According to a new report by CBS News, a 2009 internal investigation by the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office into the training of Robert Bates, the reserve deputy who claims he mistakenly shot and killed Eric Harris earlier this month, deemed his training “questionable” and marked by “preferential treatment,” with Bates…
Robert Bates, charged with second-degree manslaughter in the April 2 killing of Eric Harris, pleaded not-guilty Tuesday. Bates and Tulsa sheriff’s department have maintained that the reserve deputy mistook his firearm for his Taser and fired the weapon at Harris accidentally.
The 73-year-old volunteer deputy who shot and killed Eric Harris after mistakenly drawing his gun instead of his Taser was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Monday, The New York Times reports.
On Thursday, a 73-year-old reserve deputy working undercover as a member of the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Violent Crimes Task Force shot and killed a suspect resisting arrest, the Tulsa World reports. The reserve deputy believed he had pulled out his Taser and not a gun, police said.
