Officer-involved shooting update from Moore Police

Moore Police shared an update on the officer-involved shooting that happened Thursday, March 20 near Butler Street and Northwest 2nd Street.

The video, posted on the department's Facebook page begins with audio of a 911 call. The caller is a woman who says someone is at her house. The caller said that a man, “Just freaked out and started stabbing” another person in the house.

The caller told the dispatcher the suspect was still in the house and that she had locked herself in a room.

The video features audio of another 911 call about the same incident, this one from a neighbor, saying two people had just been stabbed across the street.

Captain David Seay said Moore police responded to the call at about 8:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they heard a disturbance in the home and saw blood on the front porch.

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Body camera footage shows Moore officers approaching the home, with guns drawn, and ordering the man to drop the weapon and show the officers his hands. In the video, the man continued to walk toward officers, holding what officers described as a “large machete.”

Captain Seay said officers backed away from the home as the video changed to show the dashboard camera. He said that officers commanded the suspect, identified by police as James Collier, to drop the weapon 20 times.

Seay narrated in the video that Collier continued to walk toward officers with the machete in a threatening manner. As officers backed away and Collier appeared to approach, as seen in the video, Moore officers fired, striking Collier.

The video then shows officers treating Collier after the shooting. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. The 2 stabbing victims were badly hurt, but are expected to survive. 

The officers involved were placed on administrative assignment. Captain Seay said the investigation is ongoing and will be handed over to the Cleveland County District Attorney’s office for review. After that, an internal affairs investigation will be conducted.