In the small town of Mountain View, Oklahoma, Deputy Sheriff Jesse Whitfield Morris, a 46-year-old White/Caucasian man, found himself in a fatal confrontation on a December day in 1900. On December 8th, he and another deputy responded to a disturbance call at a residence in the northwestern part of the town. Upon their arrival, they were met with gunfire as three men fled from the house.
The deputies managed to intercept the armed men and initially de-escalated the volatile situation. In
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