Fatal Encounters

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Jeffrey Paul Marler

Name: Jeffrey Paul Marler
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Race: European-American/White
Date: 07/12/2004
Location: N4720 Road
Westville, Oklahoma, 74965
County: Adair
Agency: Adair County Sheriff's Office
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Deputies responded to a call of a house being vandalized. When the deputies arrived at the residence, they saw no one and left. Deputy Donald A. Turner II, 42, noticed a man leaving a nearby brushy area. The man was riding a four-wheeler that matched the description of a vehicle seen at the residence. Turner pursued Marler on a county road. When Turner crested the hill, he saw the four-wheeler stopped in the middle of the roadway. Turner hit it, and Marler was thrown about 50-feet, killing him, police said.
Unique ID: 18865

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