OKLAHOMA CITY (Free Press) — The motive force of a truck reported stolen Monday morning was fleeing police when he crashed into one other automobile killing its driver close to N.E. fifteenth and Martin Luther King.
The individual not concerned within the chase however killed within the crash with the truck was recognized by police Monday afternoon as Star Shells, 39.
In line with Grasp Sgt. Gary Knight with the Oklahoma Metropolis Police Division, Wacey Gerron Mikles, 38 is the suspect within the truck theft and crash. He’s underneath arrest on complaints of “homicide within the second diploma, felony eluding, inflicting a collision with out a legitimate state driver’s license (license underneath suspension) and possession of CDS (meth).” All the complaints will likely be filed with the district lawyer as having been dedicated after a former conviction of a felony.
He was taken to the hospital in police custody after the crash and is anticipated to get better.
Stolen truck
The police chase started when a enterprise proprietor, Gerardo Ochoa, known as 911 about 7:15 a.m. to report his Ford F350 truck had simply been stolen from his enterprise within the 2500 block of South Central Avenue.
Ochoa advised police that he had left his truck working in entrance of his enterprise and had seen a person drive away with the truck.
Ochoa was in a position to monitor the truck along with his telephone and relayed the situation to police who caught as much as Milkes driving north.
Milkes, the suspect, was nonetheless attempting to get away from police within the truck when he crashed into Shells’ automobile at N.E. fifteenth and MLK.
The truck was listed as totalled after the crash and the opposite automobile Shells was in was additionally badly mangled.
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Final Up to date Could 24, 2023, 8:59 PM by Brett Dickerson – Editor
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