Bodycam video captured failed escape attempt
Police body camera footage released Thursday shows a naked suspect trying to jump through a hospital window moments after trampling a patient in his bed. The patient later died.
“My patient is in there,” a doctor at Integris Baptist Medical Center can be heard telling Oklahoma City officer Caleb Case, as they stand outside a closed hospital room door. Inside, a man fleeing police custody was hiding in the room of Reginald Henry Morrisey, 48, of Oklahoma City, who had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
Case and a nurse force the door open.
“Get off of him! Get off of him,” a nurse already in the room says.
Jimmy McCoy III, 25, of Oklahoma City, climbs on a gurney and attempts to jump through a window. Shattering glass can be heard as the officer rushes around the bed toward McCoy. McCoy makes a few more attempts to break the second pane of glass before Case gets close enough to begin hitting him with a baton.
“I just wanna go,” McCoy yells as Case commands him to get on the ground.
“We gotta pull him out,” a nurse yells, presumably speaking about
Morrisey, who she is standing next to.
“Hey, get us a nurse over here, he’s bleeding pretty good,” Case says after he handcuffs McCoy to a gurney.
“I’m bleeding to death,” McCoy says repeatedly, also complaining he can’t breathe.
At one point, McCoy asks if Morrisey is all right.
“What’s wrong with him? Is he OK?” McCoy asked several times. “Is the other dude OK? What’s wrong with him?”
Case asks for a tourniquet to stop McCoy’s bleeding. Case asks a second officer who enters the room to hold McCoy so he can catch his breath away from the lingering pepper spray deployed during the altercation.
Medical staff bark orders between coughs and gags as they rush to render aid to Morrisey. Some hold cloths to their faces to avoid coughing.
Case briefly exits the room, then steps back in. Morrisey and his bed are no longer there, and several nurses try to stop McCoy’s bleeding.
Morrisey died April 14 due to his medical care being “compromised by a fleeing suspect,” according to the state medical examiner.
McCoy was being held on a burglary complaint at the time of the attempted escape. On Thursday, Oklahoma County prosecutors charged McCoy with first-degree murder, alleging the incident was a “substantial factor” in Morrisey’s death.
McCoy is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail. He also is under investigation in the killings last year of an Oklahoma City woman and her son who were beaten and stabbed before their home was set on fire.
In the early morning hours of Dec. 17, firefighters went to a house fire at 1137 NW 80 and found Julie Mason, 41, dead inside the home and her son, Keagen Bruce, 8, barely alive. Keagen later died at a hospital. An autopsy revealed the victims were stabbed and beaten before the house was set ablaze.
Police suspected Mason may have been sexually assaulted, and investigators discovered McCoy was a suspect in another sexual assault in the same neighborhood. McCoy’s alibi didn’t match his location based on cellphone data, police reported.