Hunter’s bounty gets stunning escape in Oklahoma City
Crime280-pound man was Tased twice with no effect; police called to help
BY JOHNNY JOHNSON
Published: October 31, 2009
Bounty hunters don’t always get their man, not even when using a stun gun — twice.
Oklahoma City police were called Wednesday night to a northeast-side apartment to help a bounty hunter with an apprehension that didn’t go as was planned.
Gary Keith Duke, 58, a security officer, private investigator and bounty hunter, instead told police about the one that got away.
Duke said he was at
Marie McGuire Plaza apartments tracking a 280-pound man, whose name was not released in a police incident report.
The bounty hunter said he spotted the man and followed him outside until they were away from other people. Duke said he didn’t identify himself but instead approached the man from behind. When he was within about five feet, he reportedly used a stun gun on the man’s back, but it had no effect.
The bounty hunter said he then held the man at gunpoint, but it appeared the man was about to charge him, so he used the Taser again. It still had no effect, Duke told police.
The man then ran inside an apartment building and got onto a crowded elevator. Duke told police he was able to stop the elevator doors from closing and ordered everyone off the elevator before he started fighting with the man and asking onlookers to call 911. According to the police report, the bounty hunter said no one would help him.
During the struggle, the man was able to escape and grab a hostage, whom he used as a shield, Duke told police.
Eventually the man punched Duke in the face twice, then jumped into a vehicle that was waiting for him in the parking lot.
Duke told police he fired a single round at one of the vehicle’s tires but missed.
That’s when police showed up, and the bounty hunter decided to call off his chase. Police said the man had not been arrested as of Friday.
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