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FEDERAL AGENTS KILL OKLAHOMA MAN DURING SEARCH
Federal agents in Oklahoma who were serving a search warrant for possible weapons and drugs shot and killed a Sequoyah County, Oklahoma man. Eugene Hartsell, 46, was killed Wednesday after Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents moved into his house in the Akins community near Sallisaw, Oklahoma.
ATF spokesman Tom Crowley said agents knocked and announced themselves before they entered Hartsell's house. Hartsell confronted the ATF agents, Crowley said, provoking the shooting.
"ATF agents did the shooting," Crowley said. "He did exit the bedroom with a shotgun and was told repeatedly to drop the weapon and did not."
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the shooting.
The ATF completed its drug- and-weapons search once the OSBI was finished, but Crowley did not know whether any weapons or drugs were found.
Oklahoma Prosecutor Monte Strout said one expended shotgun shell was found in the house. Although a final OSBI report was not yet available, Strout predicted that the homicide will be ruled justifiable.
"It's always unfortunate, but I found nothing to indicate it wasn't totally justified," he said. "I see nothing irregular at this point."
In 1995, Hartsell was convicted of two Sequoyah County, Oklahoma drug counts and served three years' probation, according to Oklahoma state Corrections Department records.
Hartsell was the second man killed by law authorities in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma this year. In January, an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma man, Roy Gene Williams, was shot eight times and killed during a traffic stop by a Roland, Oklahoma police officer. The Sequoyah County, Oklahoma district attorney's office ruled that shooting as justifiable homicide.
Williams' mother has filed a federal lawsuit against the Roland, Oklahoma Police Department for her son's death.
Federal agents in Oklahoma who were serving a search warrant for possible weapons and drugs shot and killed a Sequoyah County, Oklahoma man. Eugene Hartsell, 46, was killed Wednesday after Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents moved into his house in the Akins community near Sallisaw, Oklahoma.
ATF spokesman Tom Crowley said agents knocked and announced themselves before they entered Hartsell's house. Hartsell confronted the ATF agents, Crowley said, provoking the shooting.
"ATF agents did the shooting," Crowley said. "He did exit the bedroom with a shotgun and was told repeatedly to drop the weapon and did not."
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the shooting.
The ATF completed its drug- and-weapons search once the OSBI was finished, but Crowley did not know whether any weapons or drugs were found.
Oklahoma Prosecutor Monte Strout said one expended shotgun shell was found in the house. Although a final OSBI report was not yet available, Strout predicted that the homicide will be ruled justifiable.
"It's always unfortunate, but I found nothing to indicate it wasn't totally justified," he said. "I see nothing irregular at this point."
In 1995, Hartsell was convicted of two Sequoyah County, Oklahoma drug counts and served three years' probation, according to Oklahoma state Corrections Department records.
Hartsell was the second man killed by law authorities in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma this year. In January, an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma man, Roy Gene Williams, was shot eight times and killed during a traffic stop by a Roland, Oklahoma police officer. The Sequoyah County, Oklahoma district attorney's office ruled that shooting as justifiable homicide.
Williams' mother has filed a federal lawsuit against the Roland, Oklahoma Police Department for her son's death.
