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Christopher George

Age : 25

Gender : Male

Race : White

Date : 09/15/2021

Location : 100 Pence Road

City : Davis

County : Murray

State : Oklahoma

Agency : Davis Police Department

Officer(s) :Not Disclosed

Cause of Death : Gunshot

Event : Killed by police during arrest

OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :

On 09/15/2021, a Davis Police Department officer shot and killed 25-year-old Christopher George outside a residence in Davis after police responded to a reported disturbance. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation subsequently investigated the fatal shooting. Later statewide tracking also identifies George as 25 and White.
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According to OSBI's account, the first Davis officer arrived to investigate the reported disturbance and encountered George at the residence. A physical struggle developed between George and the officer. Police alleged that during that struggle George gained control of the officer's handgun.
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A second Davis police officer arrived while the confrontation was underway. OSBI alleged that George fired one shot from the first officer's handgun as the second officer arrived. Public accounts do not establish that the shot struck anyone.
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The second officer then fired multiple rounds at George, killing him. The available account therefore establishes an unusual sequence in which the fatal shooting officer was not the officer who initially struggled with George: George allegedly disarmed the first officer, allegedly fired that officer's weapon as a second officer arrived, and the second officer then shot and killed him.
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The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation handled the investigation rather than leaving Davis Police Department solely responsible for investigating its own officers. OSBI publicly identified George but did not identify either the officer who was allegedly disarmed or the second officer who fired the fatal shots in the contemporary reporting located for this update.
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The publicly available record remains sparse regarding the precise circumstances that preceded the struggle. Contemporary reporting describes the initiating call only as a disturbance at a residence and does not provide a detailed explanation of what George was allegedly doing before the first officer encountered him, who called police, or what occurred between the officer's arrival and the beginning of the physical confrontation.
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The later record located for this update also does not provide a detailed public reconstruction of the shooting, identify the officers, specify how many rounds the second officer fired, or provide a readily accessible final prosecutorial disposition. Those underlying OSBI records would be particularly important because the police account depends on the sequence of the struggle, George allegedly taking the first officer's firearm, the alleged shot from that weapon, and the second officer's subsequent use of deadly force.
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OFFICER BACKGROUND
The Davis police officer who shot and killed Christopher George and the officer who initially struggled with him have not been publicly identified in the records located for this update.
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The lack of officer identification prevents a reliable individual review for previous shootings, complaints, discipline, lawsuits or other significant misconduct involving either officer.
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There is, however, significant agency history from the same period. Less than five months before George was killed, another Davis Police Department officer, Dale Smith, was arrested following allegations that he repeatedly sexually assaulted a woman beginning in fall 2020. The Murray County Sheriff's Office investigated after the woman reported the alleged assaults, and Davis Police Chief Danny Cooper was notified during that investigation. Smith was terminated by the Davis Police Department following his arrest. This matter was unrelated to George's death and does not establish misconduct by the unidentified officers involved in his shooting, but it represents serious documented misconduct within the small department during the same year.
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The most directly relevant unresolved issue in George's case remains identification of the two Davis officers. Because the police account alleges that one officer lost control of his service weapon during a physical confrontation and another officer subsequently used deadly force, the officers' reports, body-camera or other available recordings, dispatch records, firearms evidence and complete OSBI investigative file would provide substantially more information than the abbreviated public account.

SOURCE LINKS :

https://www.kxii.com/2021/09/16/davis-police-investigate-officer-involved-shooting/
https://www.news9.com/story/6142c7b8b5b8a50bd3a5e5d0/davis-police-investigate-fatal-officerinvolved-shooting
https://kfor.com/news/local/davis-police-investigating-officer-involved-shooting/
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2021-09-17/police-man-who-took-oklahoma-officers-gun-fatally-shot
https://www.newstalkkzrg.com/2021/09/17/police-man-who-took-oklahoma-officers-gun-fatally-shot/
https://www.readfrontier.org/special-projects/shot-by-shot-oklahoma-police-shootings-in-2021/