A girl was shot in the head and two other children were also injured during a police shooting in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – Injuries inflicted on three children when Oklahoma police fired on a robbery suspect in a van do not put his life at risk, the Investigation Bureau said Saturday. of the state of Oklahoma.

Brook Arbeitman, spokesman for OBSI, said the children of 5, 4 and 1 years old had been taken to a hospital in the Tulsa area. Their names and conditions have not been disclosed.

Olivia Hill told Sherman (Texas), KXII-TV news channel, that she is the mother of three children and a fourth uninjured child.

"My 4-year-old daughter has been hit in the head and she has a bullet in her brain, my 5-year-old has a broken skull," said Hill. "My 1 year old baby has gunshot wounds in the face, my 2 year old son was not hit by bullets."

Hill and the four children were in the van with William Devaughn Smith, 21, when two officers approached him and shots exploded Friday in Hugo, near the border with the state of Texas, declared Arbeitman. Smith's relationship with Hill and the kids is not clear.

The investigators did not determine what led to the shootings, which also injured Smith, who had been treated in a hospital 30 km from Paris, Texas, and then taken to a Texas jail with a warrant for robbery. of Oklahoma, said Arbeitman.

"What happened between the contact with him and the moment the police were fired, we are still trying to put that together," the spokeswoman said. "The OBSI is still investigating whether he fired at the police and was armed."

Arbeitman also said that it was unclear whether the officers who opened fire could see the children inside the truck.

Smith is believed to have committed an armed robbery on April 11 in a Hugo Pizza Hut. He has not been formally charged, and the prison records of Lamar County, Texas, do not mention a lawyer to speak on his behalf.

A message on the Hugo Police Facebook page indicated that a man had entered the restaurant entrance, had pressed an object on the back of an employee and asked for money. . The police stated that the worker had handed over money and that the thief had left.