The investigation into the officer-involved shooting in Oklahoma that killed Arkansas double homicide suspect Andre Johnson will take “several weeks minimum,” said an official with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation.
Jessica Brown, a spokesman for the bureau, said the primary agent working the case would need time to gather all the evidence to help determine if the authorities who shot Johnson in Broken Bow, Okla., acted within the law.
Agents will have to consult ballistics and other evidence from the scene of the shooting and evaluate Johnson’s autopsy before submitting a written report to the McCurtain County district attorney, Brown said. Interviewing the witnesses at the scene — East 10th Street and Norris Drive in Broken Bow — will be particularly time-consuming, she added.
“There are a lot of people out there, and we want to interview all of them,” Brown said.
Johnson, 40, was the suspect in two shooting deaths in Horatio on Saturday afternoon. The Sevier County sheriff's office identified the victims as Don L. Brown, 70, of Horatio and Deborah Johnson, 66, who lived in the 100 block of Cottage Hill Drive, which was the homicide's location. Robert Gentry, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said Deborah Johnson was Andre Johnson's mother.
After the shootings in Arkansas, Andre Johnson drove to Broken Bow, which is roughly 28 miles from Horatio, authorities said.