GUILTY OK - Two injured in Tulsa County courthouse shooting, 7 March 2012

Shooting Reported At Tulsa County Courthouse

Posted: Mar 07, 2012 2:39 PM CST Updated: Mar 07, 2012 3:15 PM CST
posted by: Kevin King - email

Tulsa -

At least two Tulsa County deputies and two others have been injured after a shooting outside the Tulsa County Courthouse.

It happened at about 2:30 p.m. at the courthouse and nearby Tulsa City-County Library, located near 5th and South Denver. The area around the courthouse has been closed off to traffic and the library has been closed.

An eyewitness tells Tulsa's Channel 8 there are multiple victims. The severity of the injuries and the identities of the victims is not known at this time. A police official said the deputy's injury was not considered to be life threatening.

http://www.ktul.com/story/17103427/shooting-reported-at-tulsa-county-courthouse

A employee of the Tulsa City County Library heard about three gunshots and immediately looked out his window to see a man with a gun calmly looking around.

The man casually sat down before deputies arrived and then turned toward them still holding the gun.

The deputies then shot the man, employee John Fancher said.

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http://www.tulsaworld.com/specialpr...tid=450&articleid=20120307_450_0_ATlaCu771985

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This is on our news right now. They are reporting the deputies injuries are non-life threatening, a bystander was also injured. The gunman seems to have the worst injuries. No details of what prompted the incident at this time, according to Fox News.

Not quite sure what this picture is actually showing, but it's a heck of a shot, whatever. From Tulsa World's site.

wfgodot said:

Not quite sure what this picture is actually showing, but it's a heck of a shot, whatever. From Tulsa World's site.

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wfgodot said:

Not quite sure what this picture is actually showing, but it's a heck of a shot, whatever. From Tulsa World's site.

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The person on the ground fits the description in the article posted above of the gunman being barefoot and wearing shorts.......altho it appears to be more like rolled up jeans perhaps in the picture...

Tulsa World site has a glut of "graphic content" photos and the story as it stands:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/specialpr...tid=450&articleid=20120307_450_0_ATlaCu771985

raeann said:

The person on the ground fits the description in the article posted above of the gunman being barefoot and wearing shorts.......altho it appears to be more like rolled up jeans perhaps in the picture...

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Yep, just found more pics (see post above). That was the gunman all right.

My guess is the gunman, several different jurisdictions of LE, and the gunman is bleeding from/around the left upper chest/shoulder area. There's also a passerby standing in the background, looking kinda befuddled.

I am quite glad that they got the gunman.

God speed towards healing for all those injured.

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Daily Mail publishes some pictures that we haven't seen (and shouldn't look at if we are easily made queasy):

Shocking photos show courthouse shootout with police
that left a deputy, a bystander and the gunman wounded

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John Fancher, a communications coordinator with the library, told The Associated Press that he heard gunshots, then grabbed his camera and stood at his office window to take pictures.

'I see a guy barefoot nonchalantly just waving a gun in the air,' Fancher said.

'I'm thinking this is not the downtown I remember working in. I start snapping off some shots and he sits down, just casually sits down, gun in his hand and three sheriff's come out of the courthouse and I can't hear what they're saying.'

Fancher said the man turned around and stood up with his gun. 'That's when (the deputies) did what they had to do,' he said.
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more at link; the last two pictures are especially bloody (warning!)

wfgodot said:

Daily Mail publishes some pictures that we haven't seen (and shouldn't look at if we are easily made queasy):

Shocking photos show courthouse shootout with police
that left a deputy, a bystander and the gunman wounded

more at link; the last two pictures are especially bloody (warning!)

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I reiterate:

Tulsa suspect's brother killed by police in 2005

http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php?id=18853328&ps=1011&cat=&cps=0&lang=en

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities were investigating Thursday whether the suspected gunman wounded in a shootout near a Tulsa courthouse was trying to commit "suicide by cop" when he drew fire from sheriff's deputies, and they confirmed his brother was shot and killed in 2005 by police officers seeking to question him about a murder.

Investigators said they still didn't know exactly why Andrew Joseph Dennehy fired a handgun into the air Wednesday afternoon in a crowded plaza outside Tulsa County District Court. Dennehy, a sheriff's deputy and a bystander were wounded in the shootout.

"Clearly `suicide by cop' may enter into it," Tulsa police spokesman Jason Willingham said. "Anytime someone goes to a location where you know law enforcement is going to be present and takes out a weapon and fires shots, you have to know you're going to garner attention."

Dennehy's brother Brian Dennehy was shot and killed in August 2005 after investigators say he fired at an officer in the parking lot of a Tulsa apartment complex, Willingham said. Police said then that he was suspected in the beating death of his grandfather, Bernard Dennehy, in Oklahoma City.

Andrew Dennehy, 23, remained in critical condition Thursday at a Tulsa hospital, Willingham said. Police have said he is technically in custody but hasn't been formally charged with a crime.


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March 2014:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/cour...cle_abac3098-b8f0-11e3-ba26-001a4bcf6878.html

A man convicted in a shooting at the Tulsa County Courthouse plaza nearly two years ago was formally sentenced Monday to 23 years and 10 days in prison on various charges.

A jury in January found Andrew Joseph "Joe" Dennehy, 25, guilty of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

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