Two Oklahoma police officers arrested for firing service weapons from truck

Published 1:15 pm Wednesday, August 5, 2015

KONAWA, Okla. — Two police officers were arrested Monday on gun-related charges only a week after both started working for a rural Oklahoma police department. 

According to a police incident report, Chauncy D. Marris and James A. Gordon, both members of the Konawa Police Department in central Oklahoma, were arrested after reports of gunshots heard early Monday morning near a trailer park. 

After being pulled over in a 2011 GMC pickup truck that matched a description of the vehicle seen at the time of the shots, the two officers initially denied that they had fired their weapons that night.

Alexis A. Wills, one of two women also riding in the truck, told a different story.

“Alexis reluctantly told me that they were driving around the town of Ada and Chauncy shot outside of his window, not aiming at anything in particular,” Pontotoc County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyler Truett wrote in an incident report. “She also stated that the boy in the back seat (Gordon) shot his gun prior to the shots that had been called in.”

Truett eventually seized two Glock pistols from the truck — the officers’ service weapons — as well as several rounds of 40-caliber ammunition. 

Marris and Gordon, both former officers with the nearby Tupelo, Oklahoma Police Department, were both booked into the Pontotoc County Justice Center on suspicion of discharging a firearm from a moving vehicle and possessing a firearm in the commission of a felony. Their bond has been set at $100,000 apiece, and they are due in court at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 18.

Both have been suspended from active duty without pay pending further investigation.

Eric Swanson with the Ada (Okla.) News contributed to this report.