The man accused of murdering two of his relatives before shooting two Oklahoma police officers and sparking a manhunt wrote up a hit list that appeared target as many as eight more people, investigators revealed Wednesday.
(FOX)- Michael Vance Jr., a 38-year-old man from Chandler, Oklahoma, is wanted on multiple charges, including two counts of first-degree murder. He was last seen early Monday about 30 miles from the Texas border in western Oklahoma — 165 miles from where the manhunt began Sunday night in Wellston.
Law enforcement officers told Fox 25 they believed he still had the AK-47 used earlier in the crime spree. In addition, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol told KWTV Vance has HIV/AIDS and is willing to spread it.
He may be headed to Las Vegas, the city’s Metropolitan Police Department told KTNV.
“Obviously, as long as he isn’t apprehended, we’re extremely concerned about those he may have indicated that he wishes harm to,” Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel told The Oklahoman newspaper on Tuesday. “Most of those are outside of Oklahoma County.”
The sheriff also said Vance was seeking revenge against people who accused him of child sex abuse.
A Wellston police officer who was shot in the foot Sunday night during a gunbattle with Vance said he shot the suspect twice in the encounter. Officer Jim Hampton told KOCO that Vance was struck twice by gunfire.
“He fell to the ground again, laid there for a few minutes, got back up. The firefight was on again,” Hampton said. “At one time, we was actually standing up facing each other, shooting at each other.”
The FBI is coordinating the search for Vance among several federal, state and local agencies and is deliberately being tight-lipped so Vance isn’t tipped off to their efforts, spokesman Terry Weber said in a statement.