(Stillwater, Okla.) — A former Cushing man has avoided a jury trial in Payne County by admitting he pointed 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, 38, of Glenpool, who reportedly was then employed as a security guard in Tulsa, was ordered to start serving 90 days in the Payne County Jail on Sept. 12 as part of a plea bargain for a 10-year deferred sentence, court records show.
Denizot must pay restitution in an amount to be determined but no more than $20,000, along with a $960 prosecution fee and $650 in fines and assessments, court records show.
Denizot was also ordered to take an anger management course and pay a DNA fee, court records show.
A protective order that the victim, then his girlfriend, had obtained after the incident, was made permanent for five years by Payne County Associate District Judge Kistler, who accepted Denizot’s guilty plea on Sept. 12.
Perkins Police Lt. Jason Galt had been sent to an apartment shortly before midnight on June 17, 2015, on a report that a woman had been injured after jumping from a moving vehicle, an affidavit said.
The then-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 and her head and would not let her get out of the vehicle when it was parked, the affidavit said.
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 in Oklahoma City 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 said.
“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 said, according to the affidavit.
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 said.
“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 said.
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 said.
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 said.
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 said.
During two interviews at the Drumright Police Department, Denizot denied ever pointing the firearm at the Perkins woman, 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 police 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 said.
“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.
Because Denizot was given a deferred sentence in the plea bargain, he will not have a criminal record if he successfully completes his probation.
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