TULSA, Okla. — A man drowned after escaping Tulsa police custody on Thursday.
The Tulsa Police Department posted an update to its Facebook page a few hours after they were called out about an alarm at the Shoreline Apartments clubhouse near 21st Street and Mingo around 4:30 a.m.
Tulsa police say they showed up and found a shattered front door and a naked man inside the clubhouse. Officers took him into custody and said he was cooperative until he made a break for it with his hands cuffed behind his back, kicked open the back door of the clubhouse and jumped over the patio railing into the pond.
The police department says officers immediately jumped into the water to try to save him but he went under the water and didn't come back up.
The Tulsa Police Dive Team came out to get the man's body out of the water. TPD has not identified him.
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