A 21-year-old man has been arrested and charged following a shooting outside a plasma donation center in Edmond, Oklahoma, on Tuesday afternoon. The incident occurred just after 2 p.m. at the Biomat USA Plasma Center on North Bryant Avenue near Second Street.
According to a news release from the Edmond Police Department, officers responded to reports of a man entering the building covered in blood and stating he had been shot. When officers arrived, they found the victim in the lobby of the clinic suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Witnesses at the scene told dispatchers that the alleged shooter was a man with long brown hair. Shortly after, the suspect, later identified as Micah James Hill, approached officers at the scene and confessed to being the shooter, local ABC affiliate KOCO.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the victim’s wife told officers she was in the waiting room when she heard her husband’s voice and saw Hill, her current boyfriend, enter the clinic, saying the victim had “come at him.” Hill told police he was sitting in the passenger seat of his girlfriend’s vehicle in the parking lot when he noticed her husband looking into the car from the driver’s side.
He claimed he feared the man due to a history of conflict, including alleged threats and a previous incident in which the man spat in his face and confronted him at work, leading to his termination. Hill said he retrieved a handgun from his girlfriend’s purse in the back seat and loaded it inside the vehicle. Feeling unsafe, he exited the car.
When the husband allegedly asked him, “Are you hurting my children?” Hill responded, “No.” Hill told officers the man then tried to “pretty much lunge” at him, prompting Hill to shoot him twice. The affidavit notes that the victim was unarmed and did not physically strike Hill, though Hill claimed he feared for his life and felt he couldn’t physically defend himself.
“I couldn’t do anything unless I shot him,” Hill told officers. “I couldn’t out-fight the husband.” Hill was taken into custody without incident and transported to the Edmond Police Department for questioning. He was later booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday on one count of assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
His bond was set at $50,000. The victim was transported to OU Health in Oklahoma City and remains in critical condition, police confirmed. The investigation remains ongoing.