Police Chief in Coma, Vietnam Veteran Dead After Crisis Call

Man killed after shooting Pond Creek police chief
KSWO News Oklahoma
Posted: Sep 14, 2015

POND CREEK, Okla.
An Oklahoma police chief is in a medically-induced coma in an Oklahoma city hospital after being shot by a man officers say was acting erratically.

Pond Creek Police Chief Tim Barwick, along with other officers, responded to a call on the 18000 block of U.S. 81 about a man trying to break into a home in Pond Creek Sunday morning. When officers got there, they found 67-year-old Clifford Butler Jr. of McAlester in the front yard saying people were in the bushes trying to hurt him.

While the officers were trying to calm Bulter down, he pulled a gun from behind him and shot Barwick once. A Grant County sheriff deputy returned fire, killing Butler. Barwick's condition is critical, but he's stable. Barwick has been the police chief for about 19 years and is a retired firefighter.

Butler's nephew says his uncle was a veteran who served in Vietnam and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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