(Stillwater, Okla.) A security guard has been accused of pointing a gun at a Perkins woman, who received a fractured skull and bleeding of the brain when she jumped out of his moving truck on Highway 33, court records show.
David Andre Denizot, 37, of Glenpool, who reportedly works at the University of Tulsa, was arrested on Aug. 6 and released on a personal recognizance bond by Special District Judge Robert Hert pending an Oct. 5 court appearance.
If convicted of feloniously pointing a firearm at the woman with whom he had a relationship, Denizot could be incarcerated for one to 10 years, according to the charge filed on Aug. 5.
Perkins Police Lt. Jason Galt was sent to an apartment shortly before midnight June 17 on a report that a woman had been injured after jumping from a moving vehicle, an affidavit said.
The 28-year-old woman had “large masses of fresh scrapes across the left side” of her face and appeared to be in pain, but said she did not need an ambulance, Galt wrote in his affidavit.
Describing Denizot as her boyfriend, she said he threatened her with a black handgun by pointing it at her head and would not let her get out of the vehicle when it was parked, the affidavit alleged.
She said while Denizot’s vehicle was traveling about 30 m.p.h., she jumped out, the affidavit said.
“In addition to the left side of her face, I also observed a large scrape on her right knee, left elbow, left ankle and the back of her head,” Galt wrote in his affidavit.
About 20 minutes later, Perkins First Responders and a LifeNet ambulance arrived to transport the woman to the Stillwater Medical Center, from which she was later transferred to the OU Medical Center due to the severity of her injuries, the affidavit said.
One week later, she was released from the hospital and the Perkins lieutenant again spoke to her, the affidavit said.
She said that on the night she was injured, she had texted Denizot to let him know she was off work and going to have dinner with a co-worker, the affidavit said.
She said that when she got home, “she received a call from Mr. Denizot telling her to come outside.
“She said she already knew it was going to be bad because she had gotten home after dark and he was going to go off on her,” the affidavit alleged.
“When she went outside, Mr. Denizot said, ‘get your f…… ass in the truck or I’m going to shoot you right here,” the woman allegedly told the lieutenant.
Saying that Denizot always carries two guns in his truck, the woman said “He then pulled a handgun from his middle console and pointed the gun at her and said, ‘it’s all I can do to not blow your f…… brains out,” the affidavit alleged.
“She then said ‘you’re going to do what you’re going to do, but why can’t we just talk?’ before Denizot laid the gun down and put it under his seat, the affidavit alleged.
She said “he told her he was going to make her walk back from Tulsa,” and drove out of the Perkins apartment parking lot, the affidavit alleged.
She said “he pulled the gun on her a second time and had it to her head,” when she unlocked the door and jumped out of the truck going about 30 m.p.h., the affidavit alleged.
She “expressed her fear of Mr. Denizot and his controlling nature,” the affidavit alleged.
She allowed the Perkins police lieutenant to read text messages from that night from Denizot, in which he used vulgar language, the affidavit alleged.
She said they had known each other about two years and that he had been coming to her residence about once a week, the affidavit alleged.
She said “she did not ask questions because she knew he was married and he did not pay her bills,” the affidavit alleged.
During two interviews at the Drumright Police Department, Denizot denied ever pointing the firearm at the Perkins woman, the affidavit said.
In the second interview on July 2, after repeatedly saying that the woman had picked up the gun first, Denizot “changed his story,” and said they went for the gun at the same time “and they came up with it together and the firearm was facing towards him and it never came out of his holster,” the affidavit said.
“I made the decision to lead Mr. Denizot to believe that security surveillance cameras were in the apartment complex during the incident,” the Perkins lieutenant wrote in his affidavit.
“It was when Mr. Denizot was told about surveillance that he admitted to pulling the gun from its holster and pointing it,” at the Perkins woman, the affidavit alleged.
“He reached for the gun so she wouldn’t grab it,” Denizot allegedly told the police lieutenant.
When she reached for the gun in his hand, “he pulled it from the holster and pointed it at her in an effort for her to get away from the gun,” Denizot allegedly told the police lieutenant.
During a reenactment at the Drumright Police Department with an orange training pistol, “I asked Mr. Denizot how (the woman) had tried to grab it,” the Perkins police lieutenant wrote in his affidavit.
“Mr. Denizot told me he could not remember. He then said that she may have gone over the top of the gun and that’s when he pulled it from the holster and said, ‘leave the f…… gun alone and don’t touch it,’” the affidavit alleged.
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