CUSHING – An investigation is continuing into the officer-involved shooting early Saturday of a man who was wounded after firing a gun multiple times at a Payne County sheriff’s deputy, according to a news release from the state crime bureau.
The suspect, who was shot multiple times and transported to a Tulsa hospital by ambulance, was identified by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation as James Clyde Jenkins, 42, who reportedly moved to Cushing after he was released from prison on March 30.
The suspect remained hospitalized on Monday morning, Payne County Undersheriff Kevin Woodward told KUSH.
The deputy, who was not injured, was not identified by the OSBI in its news release.
The incident began just after midnight Saturday when Cushing police received a call about shots being fired during a domestic disturbance, the OSBI news release said.
“Payne County Sheriff’s Department deputies were in the area and assisting in the search for the suspect,” the OSBI news release said.
When a deputy located Jenkins in a vehicle and initiated a traffic stop, Jenkins failed to stop and a pursuit ensued, the OSBI news release said.
Near 9th Street and S. Schlegel Road in rural Cushing, “Jenkins stopped, pointed a firearm at the deputy and shot multiple times,” the OSBI news release said. “The deputy returned fire and Jenkins was struck multiple times,” the OSBI news release said.
The OSBI, which processed the crime scene and conducted interviews, will turn over its report to the Payne County District Attorney’s Office on completion, the news release said.
According to court records and the state Department of Corrections, the suspect, who was listed in prison records as James C. Jenkins III, was continuously incarcerated for 18 years prior to his release on March 30 from the Dick Conner Correctional Center.
Jenkins had previously been convicted of:
* three counts of armed robbery and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in 1999 in Muskogee County, for which he was given in 2000 three concurrent 25-year prison terms that he discharged in November 2017 and one concurrent 10-year prison term that he finished in November 2009;
* drug possession in a penal institution in 2003 in Cleveland County, for which he was given a consecutive one-year prison term of which he served four months between November 2017 and March 2018;
* second-degree burglary in 1996 in Muskogee County, for which he was given a two-year prison term of which he served eight months;
* unauthorized use of a vehicle and larceny in 1996 in Muskogee County, for which he was given two concurrent two-year prison terms and served eight months;
* second-degree burglary in 1996 in Muskogee County, for which he was originally given five years’ probation that was later revoked to a three-year prison term of which he served less than two years;
* auto burglary in 1994 in Muskogee County, for which he was originally given three years’ probation that was later revoked to a concurrent three-year prison term of which he served about two years.
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