Oklahoma City officer recounts night she was ambushed

 
BY BRYAN DEAN
Published: December 31, 2010

Officer Katie Lawson heard the first shot.

After that, the sound went away and she can remember only seeing the muzzle flashes from the AR-15 rifle pointed at her from outside her patrol car window.

She can’t explain how she survived, how her protective vest stopped rifle rounds that normally would cut right through it.

Lawson believes in divine intervention, and she trusted in the training that he...


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