It was Feb. 8, a warm and windy Sunday afternoon in Logan County, when the Sheriff’s Department got a call saying an armed man was suicidal. The man was a 74-year-old retired Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant. He turned his gun toward a Highway Patrol trooper and a Sheriff’s deputy, who both fired. The retired officer was pronounced dead at the scene.
An hour and 15 minutes later, Tulsa police stopped an armed man on East 51st Street who was walking along the sidewalk near the Burger Street restaurant. An officer fatally wounded him with a rifle shot after he pointed a revolver at an officer.
Just before 6 p.m. on Feb. 16, Oklahoma City Police MSgt. Mathew Nelson shot 50-year-old Steven Saathoff after encountering him firing a pistol outside a mobile home park…