Police killings
2013-2020

Dana Dean Carrothers

Male, White

Date of the incident: 11/6/2017

Lindsay, Garvin, OK
100th Street and Council Avenue

Dana Dean Carrothers had been reported as missing by Norman police and was reportedly suicidal. Two Lindsay police officers found him inside a parked van. The officers were responding to a report of a man who was acting erratic with a gun when they found him sitting inside a van with a container of gasoline. The officers ordered the man out of the van, and he got out with a lighter in his hand. The man disobeyed the officers' commands to get away from the van, he turned to get back inside the van. The officer fired a Taser, igniting the gasoline, killing Carrothers.