Fatal Encounters

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Name withheld by police

Name: Name withheld by police
Age:
Gender: Male
Race: Race unspecified
Date: 10/22/2021
Location: I-240 and S Santa Fe Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 73139
County: Oklahoma
Agency: Oklahoma City Police Department
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Pursuit
Media summary: Around 4 a.m., a robbery was reported at a 7-Eleven. Two people fled south in a red Saturn on Western Avenue. An Oklahoma City police officer spotted the vehicle and pulled up behind it. The vehicle stopped in a nearby lot, but then sped away. The vehicle then entered I-240's westbound lanes in the wrong direction, and the police officer, traveling east in the eastbound lanes, pursued the fleeing vehicle. The fleeing vehicle collided head-on with another vehicle. The person driving the vehicle was killed, and the passenger was injured, as was the driver of the other vehicle.
Unique ID: 31164

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