Michael Stevens (Oklahoma City Police Department).
Bodycam shows police arresting a man in Oklahoma who had allegedly shot at two neighbors and struck one of them. According to authorities, his reasoning for the crime was that he was upset about them doing work on a piece of land.
In the video, Michael Stevens, 41, is seen preemptively surrendered by kneeling on the side of a dirt road with his hands behind his back.
According to the arrest warrant application obtained by Law&Crime, cops got a shots fired call to Alexi Lane in Oklahoma City, at 2:58 p.m. on Sept. 13.
“Michael appeared to be intoxicated and made several voluntary statements to the officers,” cops said in documents. “He told the officers that he saw subjects clearing the land west of his property. Michael did not know if the land was sold or not, but he was not happy that the land was getting cleared, and when he heard the chainsaw, he snapped.”
According to cops, those two victims were Stevens’ neighbors, and the owners of the victims’ home hired the pair to clear brush and trees from five acres of newly purchased land north of the property.
Stevens allegedly said that he confronted the men. One of them, in the words of the affidavit, “gave him an attitude.” Stevens’ alleged response was to shoot him and to try to shoot the other man. Both victims ran.
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Investigators claimed that further investigating revealed Stevens had been armed with an AR-15 style rifle.
“Michael shot [uninjured victim’s] truck more than twenty times, striking the front windshield and the side windows,” police wrote. “[The injured victim] crashed his pickup truck into a tree and realized that he was shot twice in the back.”
Stevens has pleaded not guilty to two counts of shooting with intent to kill and three counts of felon in possession of a firearm. Those latter charges stem from him pleading guilty in a DUI case in 2016.
A hearing in the shooting case is set for Dec. 13.
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