Video, calls involving fatal standoff to be publicized

— Before being fatally shot, hostage taker Sammie L. Wallace ranted inside a grocery store here that the FBI and the Illuminati were after him.

A police captain shot Wallace in the head June 17 inside the Walmart Market as he held a 2-year-old girl at knife point. Wallace had threatened to harm the girl and was shot after he began counting down.

Police Friday will make public a videotape of events leading up to the shooting, and recordings of 911 calls.

Wallace, 37, made several references to the Illuminati and said he was tired of them pursuing him, police reported. He called himself a

person of interest to the FBI.

The Illuminati was the name used by a secret society hundreds of years ago. The name also has appeared in fiction, most notably in novelist Dan Brown’s best-seller “Angels & Demons.” Wallace also ranted that George Bush was monitoring him and that he was the richest man on Earth, police reported. Wallace told police officers in the store several times “to take the shot” if they had one, police reported.

Police Friday also will identify the girl’s mother and a store customer who blocked Wallace’s path with his body and a shopping cart until officers arrived.

Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater last Friday cleared police Capt. David Huff, who fired after Wallace moved the knife from the girl’s abdomen to her throat.

“Huff’s actions in this incident were not only justified and necessary, they were heroic,” Prater wrote in a letter.

Wallace wanted both the girl’s mother and later police officers to call a police officer in Dallas to come pick him up at the store. The two had been friends in high school and at Langston University.

Wallace was a felon with a criminal history in Texas, records show. Relatives told Midwest City police he became mentally ill after smoking embalming fluid.

Wallace moved to Oklahoma last year from Dallas and lived for a time in a homeless shelter in Oklahoma City. A sister told police he moved to Oklahoma City suddenly after complaining about seeing ghosts in his apartment.

The sister said that in his phone calls from Oklahoma, he claimed people were after him and people were trying to kill him, police reported.

During the negotiations at the store, Wallace agreed to sit down in a chair but declined a drink of water, saying it was an Illuminati trick, police reported.

He did not know the girl or her mother.

After his death, police searched his apartment in Midwest City and found DVDs about conspiracies and religion, records show. Police also found religious writings in a spiral notebook and a Bible on a table.

Wallace often posted passages from the Bible on his Facebook page.

His last post — on June 16 — was: “WE REALLY DO NEED TOO CHANGE THE RULES!!!!”