Tyler Wayne Hayes

How they died

Deadly force

Hayes escaped from a center in Oklahoma City contracted by the state Corrections Department. Officers Clifford Damon, 29, and Timothy Campbell, 30, responded to a call about a car stolen from the 1600 block of SW 68. A few minutes later they spotted a other matching that description on Kentucky Avenue near SW 89.. When the officers tried to stop the car, the driver accelerated south on Kentucky, plowing through a fence and a yard. The driver turned around and began to drive north, but lost control of the car and ran over the curb. Damon and Campbell approached the car on foot--one from the front and one from the back--and the driver reversed quickly, swinging the other in a half-circle. Both officers fired on the driver, killing him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Tyler Wayne Hayes, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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