Warr Acres, Oklahoma Police Shooting Leaves Suspect Critical After Chase

A driver is in critical condition after Warr Acres police shot him early on Monday, Nov. 9, at the end of a short chase in the Oklahoma City suburb, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

Investigators said Warr Acres officers tried to pull over a speeding car near Northwest 63rd Street and MacArthur Boulevard just after midnight. The driver drove off instead. The car hit a power pole in a neighborhood near Northwest 58th Street and Mueller Avenue, and the chase ended there on foot.

What investigators say happened

The bureau said officers tried to arrest the driver after the crash. He ran from the car and went into the backyard of a home. Investigators said he pulled out a gun in the backyard, and officers shot him at that point.

The driver was taken to a hospital in critical condition. No names have been released. KOCO 5 and KOKH Fox 25 carried the same critical condition report on Monday, and News 9 reported the bureau account in full at 15:13 UTC.

Early local reporting described a white SUV against the power pole and a road closure near Northwest 58th Terrace and Mueller Avenue while officers worked the scene. The bureau account, published later on Monday, gives Northwest 58th Street and Mueller Avenue as the crash location, and this article follows the bureau on the street name.

The people inside the home

Investigators said there were people inside the home whose backyard the driver entered. Those residents did not know him, according to the bureau, and he did not live in the area. No one else was hurt, the bureau said.

That detail matters for the neighborhood around Northwest 58th and Mueller, a residential area west of Rockwell Avenue and south of Northwest 63rd. A chase that starts as a speeding stop on MacArthur Boulevard ended in a yard where a family was inside and had no connection to the driver, based on the account investigators have released so far.

Investigation now sits with the state bureau

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has taken over the case, which local reporting described as the standard step for an officer involved shooting in Oklahoma. The bureau has not released the driver name, the names of the officers, or any charge in the case. It has also not said what speed the car was traveling at when officers first tried the stop, or how long the chase lasted.

Officials said the investigation is ongoing and that more information would be provided as it becomes available. Until the bureau releases more, the public record is the sequence above: a speeding stop just after midnight, a crash into a power pole, a run into a backyard, a gun pulled, and shots fired by officers.

Anyone reading early scanner or social posts about the Warr Acres shooting should treat the bureau account as the confirmed version. The first reports on Monday morning said only that shots had been fired after a pursuit and that the state bureau had been called in. The later bureau account added the critical condition, the backyard and the gun, and no official source has contradicted it so far.