TULSA -- Newly released video shows a Tulsa Police Department sniper shooting a man holding a 2-year-old hostage.
According to police, 44-year-old Salvador Reyes broke into his estranged wife's home, grabbed her 2-year-old daughter and held her hostage.
The woman was able to escape the home with her three other young children and her boyfriend.
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Police later identified the sniper as Officer Jason Lawless, an 18-year veteran of the Tulsa Police Department. The 2-year-old child wasn't injured.
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