Shawn Taylor Watie
Male, Native American
Date of the incident: 3/14/2019
Sallisaw, Sequoyah, OK
US-59 & I-40
US-59 & I-40
Police said they received a call around 9 a.m. reporting a suspicious person walking along the highway. The caller said the person appeared to match the description of an inmate that had escaped from Missouri. Sallisaw officers Devin Harriman and Coty Biles made contact with Shawn Taylor Watie of Stillwell. Watie allegedly came after the officers with a knife, and they shot and killed him. He was not the person they said they were seeking.