Bartlesville Police are investigating a Monday shooting incident at the Brookhaven Apartment Complex.

 

Officers were called to the apartments on South Santa Fe Avenue around 11:15 last night (on Monday night). 9-1-1 callers reported a male suspect dressed all in black was carrying a handgun an engaging in a verbal altercation with another individual. As police arrived, the suspect fired on the officer and then fled the scene on foot. The responding officer was not struck by gunfire. However, one of the bullets struck a resident who was inside their own apartment in the leg. That victim was transported to a nearby hospital.

 

B-P-D located the suspect a short time later in the 1600 block of South Penn Avenue. Officers located what they believe to be the weapon in the shooting in a nearby dumpster. The suspect, identified as 21-year-old Jeconiah Ray Dylan King was arrested an taken to the Bartlesville Police Department where he then allegedly assaulted an investigator inside an interview room.

 

King is currently being held in the Washington County Jail where he faces charges of Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Discharging a Firearm in a Dwelling, and Assault and Battery on a Police Officer.