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TULSA, OKLA. — A convenience store clerk shot a man who police say stormed in swinging a machete, got behind the counter, and came after him twice.
It happened June 11 around 8:17 a.m. at Naifeh’s Food Mart near 200 N. Mohawk Blvd. Tulsa Police officers responded to a shooting call and found 61-year-old Donald Lockridge sitting outside with a gunshot wound to the hip. He was taken to a hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers spoke with the clerk and reviewed surveillance video. Police say Lockridge walked into the store with a machete, yelling and swinging it, then got behind the counter and swung the blade at the clerk.
The clerk got out of the store and grabbed a gun from his car. Police say Lockridge followed him outside, then turned and went back into the store.
When the clerk went back in, police say Lockridge attacked him again with the machete. The clerk shot him in the hip and called 911.
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Police say Lockridge is expected to be booked into the Tulsa County Jail on a complaint of assault with a deadly weapon once he is medically cleared. The investigation remains open, and Lockridge has not been convicted of anything.
