Ambushes and surprise attacks on law enforcement
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February 1, 2017
Lynn L. Martin
Police Officer Katie Lawson was ambushed in an Oklahoma City parking lot on Aug. 29, 2010, by a man firing 29 shots with an AR-15, hitting her with six of the bullets. She recovered, returned to work, and in 2011 was named the "Nation's Top Cop and Citizen's Choice Award" for her bravery. She told her story Monday at Northwest Technology Center in Alva in a seminar hosted by the Woods County Sheriff's Office, ENJ Financial, Washburn Motors and Holiday Inn Express.
"I shot a cop with an AR-15," Hector Escalante told Judge Donald L. Deason in a blind plea of guilty on Nov. 9, 2011, in an Oklahoma County Courtroom. Escalante made the plea claiming he was the only shooter and that his younger brother and mother were not involved.
Investigators said that 27-year old Katie Lawson had just finished helping an Oklahoma County Sheriff's deputy arrest a man, Hector Mercado, for DUI. Shortly after Lawson left the scene, someone opened fire on her in the the 3900 block of North Miller.
Escalante admitted he shot Lawson with an AR-15 after his father was arrested on...
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