A “heavily armed” man was arrested Saturday at Oklahoma’s Hard John Rock Hotel and Casino inwards Catoosa after firing several shots inwards a parking lot, local police force proclaimed this weekend. He had in his possession an AR-15 rifle, trine other firearms, and a “great trade of ammunition,” cops add.
By the time he surrendered, bullets struck a cassino van and a gaming holding sign, KOTV, a local TV station reported. The van’s frame, seats, tires, and windscreen were all damaged, the write up adds. Shots were also fired at a local golf game course. Still, no ace was injured.
He was identified as St. David Temple, 35, of Arkansas, and police said he was a convicted felon, KOTV said. Authorities also allege he had alcohol, cash, and suspected illegal drugs inward his possession.
Arrested on Eight Charges
He was arrested on the following charges: whitlow in ownership of a firearm, malicious hurt to property, reckless carry on with a firearm, pointing a firearm, employ of a vehicle inwards the expelling of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance, public intoxication, and transporting an open nursing bottle or container of liquor, according to online pokey records. He remained in Rogers County Detention Center tardily this weekend.
Temple initially showed upwards at the parking lot at almost 9:30 am Saturday because it is the land site of a charging station, law said. He required to recharge his Tesla.
Upon [officers] arriving, they had an armed confrontation with the suspect and gratefully he surrendered,” Catoosa Police Chief Ronnie Benight said inward a Facebook post. “The suspect was inwards possession of cocain and hallucination typecast drugs and seemed to live below the influence.”
Casino surety officers initially secured the offense site and quickly contacted local cops, Benight said.
“I manage not finger the casino was the suspect’s terminus spot for violence, as the Tulsa Police were already looking for for the surmise for shooting at vehicles on the interstate [highway],” Benight speculated. “I sense he only if stopped up(p) for a charge.”
It appears Temple ne'er stopped up(p) at the gaming dimension building, cassino spokesman Brandon Robert Scott told KOTV followers the incident. The gambling casino is almost 14 miles from Tulsa. It is a Cherokee Carry Amelia Moore Nation Entertainment property.
“I’m just now happy the security team up did their job, no i was injured, no 1 was threatened. Like i said, it went as fountainhead as a situation ilk that could turn as far as supporter refuge and our protection team,” Scott added to the TV station.
Prior Crime
Last month, the same gambling casino was the site of a man allegedly placing an improvised volatile device (IED) in a grip alfresco of the tribal gaming venue. Zachary Schmidt, 32, was arrested on a ownership of explosives gimmick charge. The case is noneffervescent pending inward court.