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Name Not Disclosed

Age :

Gender : Male

Race : Native American

Date : 08/28/2021

Location : Echols Street

City : Arkoma

County : LeFlore

State : Oklahoma

Agency : Fort Smith Police Department, Arkoma Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during pursuit

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 08/28/2021, at approximately 9:00 p.m., Fort Smith Police Department officers pursued a reportedly stolen box truck carrying a man and woman from Fort Smith, Arkansas, across the state line into Arkoma, Oklahoma. The encounter ultimately reached Echols Street in Arkoma.
According to Le Flore County Sheriff Rodney Derryberry, police alleged that the driver rammed a police vehicle on Echols Street. Officers attempted to block the box truck, but authorities alleged that the driver continued moving the truck onto the police vehicle. A witness described seeing the box truck climb on top of a female officer's police car and crush down onto it.
Police then used another vehicle to ram the box truck. Gunfire followed. A witness at the scene reported hearing two shots while the box truck was on top of the police vehicle. The man driving the truck was killed. Early reporting initially left unclear whether the collision or police gunfire caused his death, but subsequent national police-death data records the cause of death as gunshot and identifies the encounter as a fatal police shooting.
The FBI investigated the fatal encounter because the pursuit crossed the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line. Contemporary reporting also identified the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation as involved in investigating the shooting.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/man-dead-following-police-pursuit-starting-in-fort-smith/527-b031bb1c-8b5a-4f60-8a84-cf9e566d97c8?utm_
https://www.4029tv.com/article/one-man-is-dead-following-a-police-pursuit-and-shooting-in-arkoma/37424445
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/suspect-dead-following-police-pursuit-starting-in-fort-smith/527-b031bb1c-8b5a-4f60-8a84-cf9e566d97c8