GARLAND L GARRISON
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 29-W: 11
Department: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, P.D.
End of Watch: September 19, 1979
Cause: SHOT
Age: 50
Years of Service: 7
Description: Officer Garrison and his partner Officer Teresa Wells, responded to a call of a woman with a young boy walking near the airport, throwing clothes in the street and acting strangely. The officers encountered the couple and as Garrison was placing the boy in the police car, the woman attacked Officer Wells and gained control of her service weapon. The woman then shot Officer Garrison under the right armpit and Officer Wells in the upper left thigh. The woman then got in the police car and drove away. She was apprehended a short time later following a pursuit and a collision with other police cars. Officer Garrison died shortly after arriving at South Community Hospital. Officer Wells survived her wound.
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