{"id":382390,"date":"2026-08-27T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382390\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T07:38:13","slug":"miami-officers-cleared-after-double-fatal-shooting-on-i-44-newstalk-kzrg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382390\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami officers cleared after double-fatal shooting on I-44 | Newstalk KZRG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Miami, Oklahoma, police officers involved in a double-fatal June shooting on I-44 have been cleared.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Doug Pewitt determined the officers\u2019 actions were justified based on an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The officers have returned to duty.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Moore, 45, of Columbia, Missouri, and Lexi Scheets, 35, of Willard, Missouri, were killed June 16 near the Miami Welcome Center.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not determined who fired the shot or shots that killed Scheets. <\/p>\n<p>The OSBI says that portion of the investigation remains open.<\/p>\n<p>Moore was driving a stolen Jeep when he picked up Scheets at a local casino. <\/p>\n<p>A Quapaw Nation Marshal Service officer later attempted a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>The marshal was under the impression that Scheets was being held hostage and said Moore fired at him during the pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Moore and Scheets eventually stopped, got out of the Jeep, and ran across the interstate before gunfire was exchanged.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/blob_jhykx85brk.jpg\" caption=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Miami, Oklahoma, police officers involved in a double-fatal June shooting on I-44 have been cleared. District Attorney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-382390","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\/382390","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=382390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}