TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa police identified the man shot and killed by Tulsa police on Tuesday morning.
Officers shot and killed Mitchell Folsom, 50, after they said he fired a shot at his girlfriend while she was driving. This happened near 36th Place North and Hartford.
During the chaos, the woman crashed into a truck, and the suspect ran off, telling his girlfriend that he's "not going back to jail."
Officers found him in a pond near Walt Whitman Elementary School. During a standoff, police say the man threatened officers, and they shot and killed him.
Tulsa Police Captain Richard Meulenberg described the scope of danger the man created, "This has been just a huge series of events that took place where one person caused a lot of disruption for so many other people. He endangered the lives of the woman he was with by shooting at her in the car, he endangered the lives of the people who were just driving down the road innocently by pointing a gun at them, he endangered the lives of the students of the school back here by being in the area."
Per standard department policy, the directly involved officers will be placed on administrative leave. Once the investigation is complete, all compiled evidence will be forwarded to the District Attorney's Office for a final determination on the justification of the shooting.
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