Miami, Oklahoma

From Ada’s KTEN.com of February 6, 2006

Charge against Wyandotte man dismissed

Ottawa County prosecutors dismiss a first-degree murder charge against a Wyandotte man after authorities determined that the shooting was self-defense.

Twenty-one-year-old Michael Anthony Morrison was charged May 2nd in the shooting death of Keith Alexander Gordon.

Gordon was found on a Wyandotte road with a gunshot wound to the face.

U-S marshals arrested Morrison in Kansas City, Kansas, and he returned to Miami in October.

District Attorney Eddie Wyant says an investigation revealed that Gordon was running at Morrison with a belt-like vest containing several shotgun shells, knives and machetes.

Wyant says Gordon's relatives removed the vest from his body and hid it in their home nearby.

Witnesses say Morrison grabbed his gun from his vehicle and shot Gordon when he began running at him with a machete in his hand.