Manhunt ends with fugitive shot dead
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A massive, weeklong manhunt for a suspect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two relatives, the shooting of three law enforcement officers and multiple carjackings, has ended in a police chase and shootout that left the man dead in western Oklahoma.
Authorities believe Michael Dale Vance Jr posted two Facebook Live videos on October 24 documenting his run from police, although he had been silent since then. An Oklahoma state trooper shot and killed Vance late Sunday near Leedey, 209 kilometers northwest of Oklahoma City and 72 km north of where he was last seen a week earlier.
Earlier Sunday, Vance shot and wounded a Dewey County officer and fled in a car, according to Dave Turk, spokesman for the US Marshals Service in Washington, DC, which participated in the manhunt.
Officers pursued Vance for about half an hour when he was approached by an Oklahoma state trooper.
“There was an exchange of gunfire between the state trooper and the subject, and the subject was killed,” Turk said.
Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief Ricky Adams described the shootout as “pretty dramatic.”
“We pinned him down,” Adams told The Oklahoman newspaper. “He’s dead ... It was an extremely good job of police work by every agency involved.”
Adams said the authorities were tipped off to Vance’s whereabouts by a farmer who spotted a vehicle in his field that matched the description of the car the fugitive was thought to be driving.
Highway Patrol spokesman Captain Paul Timmons told Oklahoma City television station KWTV that authorities believed Vance had been camping in the area, but that he fled and was eventually shot dead by state troopers.
Vance was wanted on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. The hunt began after he shot and wounded two police officers on October 23 in Wellston, 56 km northeast of Oklahoma City, authorities said.
Vance, 38, was suspected of shooting a woman and stealing her vehicle at a mobile home park near Wellston, then driving about 13 km to his relatives’ mobile home in Luther and killing them.
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