Handcuffed man jumps in pond to escape police and doesn’t resurface, Oklahoma cops say

A handcuffed suspect ran away from police, jumping into a pond to avoid capture — but he didn’t resurface, Oklahoma police said.

Tulsa police responded to an alarm at the Shoreline Apartments, on the city’s east side, after 4 a.m. on Oct. 27, the department said in a release.

Officers arrived to find a man, naked, inside the complex’s clubhouse. He had broken in by smashing a window with a brick, and his wet clothing was “strewn about the office,” police said.

The officers put the man in handcuffs, but he was able to escape by kicking open a patio door, then leaping over the railing and into a pond, police said.

Police “immediately chased after the suspect and jumped into the water trying to rescue him,” according to the release. “They made a valiant effort, but the suspect went under the water and did not resurface.”

Believing he had drowned, the Tulsa Police Dive Team was called in to search the pond. After several hours, crews found the man’s body in 10 feet of water “with little to no visibility,” the release said.

This story was originally published October 27, 2022 at 11:40 AM with the headline "Handcuffed man jumps in pond to escape police and doesn’t resurface, Oklahoma cops say."