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Police say Michael Vance had help on 8-day run; OHP releases video of shootout

Posted at 8:06 PM, Nov 01, 2016
and last updated 2016-11-01 21:09:32-04
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Dashcam video released Tuesday shows the gun battle between Michael Vance and police near Leedey, Oklahoma. Vance was accused of multiple violent crimes across the state. Police say he had help on his eight day run from law enforcement. 
 
"I would get my guns and I would come and you're just lucky," Michael Vance said on Facebook Live. "Oh, you're so lucky this went down this way." 

According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, those are words coming from the mouth of a killer. 

"This is a dangerous individual," Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief Col. Rick Adams said. "This is a killer that's killed his own family."

38-year-old Michael Dale Vance Jr. led police on a multi-county chase. It didn't end until two people were dead and three police officers were injured. 

"You never dream anything like this will ever happen, but man these guys, they won," Wellston Police Department Chief Tim Estes said.

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The whole time Vance was bragging about it on social media. He used Facebook live twice. The dashcam video Sunday shows the double homicide suspect taken down by police after eight days on the run. Police say Vance was killed in a shootout with a local deputy in Dewey County, Oklahoma.

"This individual actually got out of his vehicle, got in front of his car and let the vehicle roll backward toward the officers that stopped shooting at him and advanced on to using the vehicle for cover like if it was a tank," Col Adams said. 

Officials say Vance had help along the way. Police say two people gave him weapons. Three people are now behind bars. April Harden, Daniel Roach and Reginald Moore.

"This man made his own choices, it wasn't nobody else," Estes said.

Those three officers who were shot are expected to live.

The three people arrested and accused of helping Vance, each face two counts of accessory to murder. 

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