State Briefs: Vest helps save trainee

 

Published: May 29, 2009

NORMAN

Vest helps save trainee Cleveland County sheriff’s office officials say a trainee was saved from serious injury when a bulletproof vest stopped a bullet. Undersheriff Rhett Burnett said trainees and deputies were taking part in a training exercise Saturday in Slaughterville when a deputy’s gun accidentally went off. Burnett said investigators are looking into the incident, but it doesn...


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