Oklahoma City police identify 16-year-old shot... 05/20/2009 The suspected armed robber who was shot and killed by a pharmacy employee Tuesday had not been identified by noon today, police and the medical examiner...
Police name teen who was shot dead during robbery try 05/21/2009 Oklahoma City police identified a 16-year-old shot and killed by a pharmacy employee Tuesday. Antwun Parker died during an afternoon robbery attempt at...
Man has no regrets defending Oklahoma City pharmacy 05/22/2009 Jerome Ersland was back at work Thursday filling prescriptions and hoping that by taking the life of a 16-year-old boy two days earlier, he had saved others....
Chickasha resident Jerome Ersland, 57, surrendered about noon, his attorney, Irven Box, said. He is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County Jail.
Box thinks a jury will exonerate Ersland.
The charge alleges Ersland shot Antwun Parker, 16, while he was incapacitated and lying on his back. Ersland’s account of the incident doesn’t match the video or the evidence collected at the scene, according to the affidavit written by Oklahoma City Police Detective David Jacobson.
Parker was shot once in the head and five times in the stomach area. The autopsy found Parker was still alive after the head shot and died from the stomach wounds.
Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater discussed the case at an afternoon press conference.
Ersland has maintained he acted in self defense when he shot Parker to foil the robbery attempt.
He said two men in ski masks threatened him and two other employees when they burst into Reliable Discount Pharmacy, near SW 59 and Pennsylvania, demanding cash and drugs.
Ersland, a disabled Army veteran, could not flee like the two women working with him, so he reached for the semiautomatic pistol in his pocket, he said when he recounted the incident for The Oklahoman last week.
Ersland said he shot one of the robbers in the head then grabbed a second gun to pursue the other robber.
The injured teen was trying to get up, Ersland said, so he emptied his gun into the would-be robber’s chest.
The other robber and getaway driver drove away before Ersland could reach them, he said.
Police have not identified anyone else involved in the robbery attempt, but the investigation is ongoing.
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