Protective order sheds new details on rape, weapons allegations against OKC police officer
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — For the second time in less than six months, Oklahoma City Police have arrested one of their own officers on suspicion of rape, assault and threats of violence.
On Saturday, Oklahoma City Police (OKCPD) arrested 23-year-old OKCPD officer Shamar Kitchens on suspicion of first-degree rape, forcible sodomy, rape by instrumentation, pointing a firearm, pointing a weapon at another, domestic assault and battery, and threatening to perform an act of violence.
Police say Kitchens joined the department in early 2023.
OKCPD’s arrest report doesn’t say much about what happened leading up to his arrest.
It says officers responded to Kitchens’ home in Surrey Hills early Saturday morning after getting a “domestic call.”
“We made contact with the victim,” OKCPD Public information officer Valerie Littlejohn told News 4. “It was determined she was involved in a domestic with someone that she was in a romantic relationship with, and he had physically and sexually assaulted her at some point earlier that morning.”
Littlejohn said the woman reported Kitchens raped her and threatened her with a gun while the two were driving to home from an area near SW 15th and Mustang Road in Canadian county, within Oklahoma City’s city limits.
News 4 wanted to look at the arrest affidavit for more details Monday, but the Canadian County District Attorney’s Office has not formally filed charges as OKCPD continues to investigate so there was no affidavit available.
“It's a very serious incident,” Littlejohn said. “We're going to do a thorough investigation. And once we gather everything, we will present it to the district attorney's office, who will ultimately decide whether charges are filed.”
News 4 did get ahold of a request for an emergency protective order—filed by the woman on Monday—shedding a bit more light on what allegedly happened.
In the request, the woman wrote she and Kitchens were driving home from Norman around 2:30 in the morning Saturday, when Kitchens took her phone from her hand “because he saw me texting men on my phone.”
She claims another passenger in the car witnessed kitchens drag her to the floor.
She wrote, after they dropped that passenger off, Kitchens “continuously punched me in the head and face and dragged me by my hair” and that he “raped me in the back seat then held a gun to my head.”
She said Kitchens told her if she “told anyone what happened, he would kill me, our daughter and himself.”
“The victim did have visible injuries to her person,” Littlejohn said. “And so it was determined that the male suspect, who was an officer, would be arrested for domestic violence and other sexual assault charges and some firearms charges as well.”
Kitchens was booked into the Canadian County Jail with a $66,000 bond.
He bonded out within a day.
The allegations against Kitchens are very similar to allegations made against a different OKCPD officer this year.
In July, News 4 reported McClain County authorities arrested Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Ryan Stark for kidnapping, rape, assault and other charges.
Again in that case, the victim was also a woman Stark had been romantically involved with.
She claimed she and Stark got in an argument in the car, and when they got home, Stark took her cell phone and ran over her foot with his patrol car, before he then “choked her, squeezed her, spat in her face and spat gum in her hair.”
She also claimed Stark held a gun to her head, threatened to kill her, and then raped her.
News 4 asked OKCPD with these cases in mind, can Oklahoma City citizens can still trust your officers?
“Officers are humans and things happen, you know, where people, you know, break the law or make decisions, they are afforded the right to due process just like everyone else,” Littlejohn said. “Again, regardless of if they're an officer or not, we take these incidents very seriously and we investigate them thoroughly.”
Littlejohn said OKCPD immediately placed Kitchens on administrative leave following his arrest, and says he will likely remain on leave until the case against him is resolved.