One of the unedited videos shows part of the encounter from several yards away. The other shows the inside of a patrol vehicle.
The edited video begins at 2:24 p.m. Saturday with officers turning onto a roadway at 89th Street and Harvard Avenue, near Jenks East Elementary School.
Just under a minute into the video, multiple shots are fired while Dickson isn’t in the frame. Officers tell dispatchers shots have been fired.
Multiple patrol cars are at the scene, and officers outside their vehicles have weapons drawn.
A few moments later, Dickson appears in the right side of the frame running on a sidewalk away from officers. She has a black object in her right hand that police later identified as a gun.
While running, she turns her torso toward the approaching police cruiser and points the gun toward the vehicle. The officer in the vehicle drives toward Dickson, who still has the gun in her hand and appears to be yelling as she runs on the sidewalk.
Moments after that, at just past 2:25 p.m., the vehicle strikes Dickson, and she can be seen falling and going beneath the hood. The officer, identified as Jonathan Grafton, a 6-year veteran,then stops his vehicle. Grafton, remains on paid administrative leave pending the investigation of his use of deadly force, Officer Leland Ashley said.
Officer Kayla Johnson and Detective Ronnie Leatherman fired their guns during the exchange, Ashley has said.
In the week before her confrontation with police on March 18, Dickson was implicated in a string of gun-related crimes.
She is believed to be thesuspect who shot a man in the head, two days before her death. The man continued driving after being wounded and collided with another vehicle.
The victim said he was shot by a red-headed white woman. Investigators said the woman might have been a passenger in the man’s car but got out after the shooting.
The man was in critical condition when he was taken to a hospital.
A few hours before that shooting, Tulsa police announced that they had tied Dickson to a series of gun-related crimes committed on March 11 and 12.
Dickson was accused of being involved in a March 11 theft from a Best Buy store. She discharged a firearm during that incident, according to the police statement.
Brittany Stieber [left], graduated from the Teen Challenge Freedom House Women’s Center, a residential drug-treatment facility in Checotah, but her friend Madison Dickson [right] opted out after thirteen month. Three months later she slipped back into her old habits and died in the commission of a crime.
The following day, Dickson shot a woman outside the Walgreens store, Walker alleged.
Dickson and an unidentified man approached a woman outside the store and demanded that she get out of her car. Dickson then shot the woman in the arm when she didn’t move, police said.
Dickson reportedly, also was among a group of women who later that day attempted to steal a license plate from a vehicle parked outside a movie theater. An employee said a woman matching Dickson’s description pointed a gun.
Dickson was charged with shooting with intent to kill, two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, unauthorized use of a vehicle, attempted larceny and discharging a firearm in a public place, according to court records.
Those who knew her said Madison Dickson struggled throughout their teenage years with drug addiction and fell in with the wrong crowds. After being charged in 2015 with stealing a sheriff’s deputy’s patrol vehicle, Dickson wrote a letter to the district judge overseeing her case to apologize for her “reckless and dangerous actions.”
In the letter, Dickson cites a lack of parental guidance and asked to be checked into a drug rehab to stay clean.
“I would like a chance to prove that I can function in society and not become a statistic,” she wrote. “… If you could find it to forgive me and give me one last chance I will show everyone that I can succeed and also show myself I am worth something and that I am also worth fighting for.”
The judge obliged and ordered Dickson be taken to the Freedom House to complete its rehabilitation program. She checked into the Teen Challenge Freedom House Women’s Center, a long-term faith-based residential facility in Checotah that helps women overcome substance abuse and other life-controlling issues.
She left in January 2017 after 13 months, without completing her programme despite a court mandate that she finish her treatment.
Dickson stayed sober for the 13 months she lived at the Freedom House and made a genuine effort to change her life around, But it didn’t last long once she fell in with her old crowd again, on the outside
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