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Tuesday 28 March 2017
Slain Oklahoma officer was new recruit, aspiring canine cop

summer, was shot several and used a stun gun, but
times late Sunday and died that failed to stop the man,
after undergoing surgery who then shot at Terney.
overnight, Tecumseh Assis- The officer returned fire.
tant Police Chief J.R. Kid- The Oklahoma State Bu-
ney said. reau of Investigation said it
“He was a very young of- will assist with investigating
ficer, just getting a start,” the crime scene, which is
Kidney said. “He was taken common for shootings in-
way too soon.” volving police.
The man who fired on Ter- Officers detained the wom-
ney was also shot multiple an who was driving so they
times. Kidney said he was in could ask her questions
a hospital’s intensive care about what happened.
unit Monday morning. Po- Kidney told The Oklaho-
lice have not released his man that Terney had a new
identity. puppy and had hoped to
Terney pulled over a ve- become a canine officer.
hicle about 11:30 p.m. Sun- Terney grew up in Cana-
day in Tecumseh, 35 miles dian, a town in eastern
southeast of Oklahoma Oklahoma, and was also a
City, according to police. volunteer firefighter, Kidney
A woman was driving, and said.
Investigators work at the scene Monday, March 27, 2017, where a Tecumseh, Okla. police officer Terney called dispatchers Dillon Degraffenreid, 21, a
was shot during a traffic stop overnight. Officer Justin Terney died Monday morning after undergo- to see if a male passenger paramedic in Tecumseh
ing surgery overnight, Tecumseh Assistant Police Chief J.R. Kidney said. The suspect was also shot
and was in intensive care Monday morning, Kidney said. had any outstanding war- who worked with Terney,
(Jim Beckel/The Oklahoman via AP) rants. Kidney said the male said he stayed by Terney’s
ADAM CAUSEY new recruit died Monday lice said. passenger ran toward side after he was shot and
some nearby woods at was part of the group that
Associated Press after a shootout with a Officer Justin Terney, who that point. He said Terney escorted his body to his
TECUMSEH, Okla. (AP) — man who fled a traffic stop had only graduated from chased the man on foot hometown.q
A 22-year-old officer and in central Oklahoma, po- the police academy last

Oregon officer says he warned
teen not to reach for his waist

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — 9 shooting after conclud-
A Portland police officer ing that Hearst, who joined
who fatally shot a 17-year- the Portland Police Depart-
old boy last month told a ment in 2010, was justified
Multnomah County grand in shooting Hayes.
jury that he warned the Hayes was shot twice in
teenager several times to the torso and once in the
keep his hands away from head. Toxicology results
his waist, according to a showed numerous drugs in
transcript of the hearing re- Hayes’ blood including co-
leased Monday. caine.
Officer Andrew Hearst tes- Venus Hayes has demand-
tified that he fired his rifle ed a U.S. Department of
three times when he saw Justice investigation into
Quanice Hayes reach to her son’s death. She said
the front of his waistband at a news conference last
despite several officers tell- week that none of the ac-
ing him to keep his hands cusations against her son
up. were sufficient grounds for
The officer said he per- his “execution.”
ceived the movement to Hayes’ death led protesters
be “very intentional and to repeatedly disrupt Port-
very deliberate,” The Or- land City Council meetings
egonian/Oregon Live re- during the weekslong in-
ported. vestigation.
Hearst also testified he Police confronted Hayes
didn’t see Hayes with a after he allegedly used a
gun in his hand when he replica gun to rob a home-
fired his rifle, but he said he less man of his state food
couldn’t wait until he was benefits card on Feb. 9.
sure it was there. Police said the replica gun
A grand jury last week de- was found next to Hayes
clined to indict Hearst on after the shooting as well as
criminal charges in the Feb. the food benefits card.q