By FOX23.com News Staff
TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa police arrested a man accused of pointing a BB gun at another man and demanding cigarettes on Monday night.
According to the Tulsa Police Department, officers responded around 8:50 p.m. to an armed robbery call near Mohawk Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Police said the victim was walking to his car in a parking lot when a man approached him, holding a gun wrapped in a cloth. Investigators said the suspect pointed the weapon at the victim and demanded cigarettes.
The victim ran back inside the store and called 911, believing the weapon was a real firearm.
Officers arrived and contacted the suspect, who police said was holding the handle of a pistol. After the suspect refused repeated commands, officers deployed pepper balls before the man eventually got on the ground and was taken into custody. Police later determined the weapon was a BB gun.
TPD said the suspect was still arrested because Oklahoma law does not require the weapon to be a functioning firearm for a person to be charged with feloniously pointing a firearm.
According to police, the suspect was booked into the Tulsa County jail on complaints of first-degree robbery and feloniously pointing a firearm.
