MIAMI, Okla. \u2014 Several agencies are investigating an officer-involved shooting that took place near Miami.<\/p>\n
According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI), The Joplin Police Department (Missouri) alerted the Quapaw Nation marshals Service of a stolen car out of Joplin. Offices found the car at the Downstream Casino and Resort just after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
As officers were attempting to approach the car, the driver sped away which led to a pursuit.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the male driver \u201cbrandished a forearm\u201d during the pursuit. He drove the wrong direction in the westbound lanes of Interstate 44 in Miami.<\/p>\n
Officers blocked traffic and the driver stopped the car. He and his passenger, an adult woman, exited the car and the driver once again brandished a gun.<\/p>\n
OSBI said law enforcement gave the suspect commands to which he did not comply resulting in a shooting that left both the driver and his passenger deceased.<\/p>\n
OSBI said they were both pronounced dead on scene and no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
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OSBI was asked to investigate the case by the Ottawa County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Miami Police Department. OSBI said the case is still under active investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, Okla. \u2014 Several agencies are investigating an officer-involved shooting that took place near Miami. According to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-310376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}