Suspect in Lake Hefner shooting killed

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A passerby shot and killed a man who went into a Lake Hefner restaurant Thursday evening and opened fire.

Oklahoma City Lt. Jeff Flaggert said officers responded about 6:30 p.m. to Louie's Grill and Bar, 9401 Lake Hefner Parkway, where the shooting had occurred.

Capt. Bo Mathews said a man, whose name has not been released, went into the restaurant and opened fire, wounding two people. After leaving the restaurant, the suspect was confronted by a person who was armed with a gun and opened fire, fatally striking the suspect.

Two people were taken from the scene in emergency status to OU Medical Center, said Lara O’Leary, spokeswoman for Emergency Medical Services Authority.

Related Photos Jennifer Stong hugs Tasha Hunt outside the scene of a shooting on the east side of Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City, Thursday, May 24, 2018. Stong was inside the restaurant when the shooting occurred along with Hunt's children. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman

nietzkore on May 25th, 2018 at 05:16 UTC »

Lots of people making assumptions ITT which turned out to be false. It was woman and her daughter shot while at the other child's birthday party. The shooter was confronted outside and told to lay down his weapon, he made a move, and got shot.

https://newsok.com/article/5595905/shooting-creates-chaos-at-okc-restaurant

Dennis Will told a local television station that his daughter and granddaughter had been shot. He said they were at the restaurant for a birthday party for another granddaughter. (...) First Christian Church-Hennessey (...) identified the victims as Natalie and Niah Will. (...) Jones said the child who was shot was still in surgery as of about 10 p.m.

He said he ran outside with others and saw a sport utility vehicle pull up in the parking lot. Then one man got a gun out of it, he said. Then he saw the gunman approach wearing protective earphones and glasses and holding a gun.

“I spotted the shooter walking along the sidewalk in the trees and I pointed saying, ‘He's there! He's there!' ” Benton said.

“He kind of stopped walking and was kind of pacing around and they are screaming, 'Put it down!' He (the gunman) must have made a move because shots were being fired and I got down,” Benton said.

edit: http://kfor.com/2018/05/25/the-only-thing-i-can-think-about-is-the-fact-that-my-daughter-is-alive-victims-recovering-from-restaurant-shooting/

Family accounts say the shooter was in the treeline, and the women were shot as they were entering the restaurant.

“She [Natalie] said they were getting ready to walk in the front door and evidently, the shooter was in the treeline and they were both shot by the front door,” recalled Will.

This is Dennis Will (father to one, grandfather to the other). I'm just realizing now that many of the news reports never said the victim came inside and then fled out the front door. Most of what I was reading with that information was people repeating it in the comments. It's possible this guy never came inside, but was shooting people in the doorway.

Some of the early reports say that police said the guy came inside --video and tweet--, shot the two people, and left. But why did he come inside to shoot two people in the doorway?

Again, conflicting reports though and information is scarce until they confirm it.

9 minute video of local news report embeded in article. They had 100+ witnesses, the tree line is 20-30 feet from the front door. That news article says the police were checking the front of the building for bullet holes, but that could have been from when the suspect was shot, or when the suspect shot the woman and her child.

EDIT 5/25 morning:

http://kfor.com/2018/05/25/what-we-know-about-the-shooting-at-lake-hefner/

Next morning reports after interviews with witnesses are updating to say that the man never entered the restaurant. He shot at the women from outside the building. The suspect was identified, 28-year-old male. The citizens who stopped him were identified (two of them), a 35-year-old male and a 39-year-old male.

OKCPD has a press conference at 1130 local time (that's 90s minutes from this post). They did release the following incident report onto Twitter showing 3 total victims hit by suspect's gunfire, 1 injured (man tripped and broke his wrist) male, and two "involved parties" (the shooters who stopped him).

qning on May 25th, 2018 at 04:07 UTC »

“one person fleeing the scene suffered a broken bone in his arm.”

So, a broken arm then?

itsallrelative1 on May 25th, 2018 at 03:15 UTC »

This is down the street from my house, less than a mile...... all I’ve heard for hours is helicopters basically on top of my house. Freaky for sure.