Strip club owner arrested for allegedly shooting at police
shadowcat
Atlanta suburb
ENID, Okla. — Police arrested the owner of a local strip club early Sunday morning after he allegedly fired shots from a handgun as officers investigated a call of an abandoned motorcycle.
Rick Andrew Childs, 45, was booked into Garfield County Detention Facility on complaints of assault and battery with a deadly weapon and public intoxication.
Enid Police Department officers were dispatched at 4:05 a.m. Sunday to the 1400 block of North Garland in reference to a motorcycle lying in the roadway with its headlight on, according to police. The motorcycle checked back to Childs, the owner of Wild Child's Gentlemen's Club.
While officers were impounding the motorcycle, an officer walked out east onto Pheasant Run Golf Course. Officers at the scene then heard what sounded like a gunshot. Officers search the scene for a possible victim but did not find one.
A wrecker service arrived to tow the motorcycle. While waiting for the motorcycle to be removed, officers heard a second gunshot. Officers searched along the golf course and heard a third shot from the northwest.
The third round went directly over the officers' heads and sounded like a ricochet, according to reports. As officers retreated to their patrol vehicles for cover, they heard two additional shots.
The department's SWAT Team was called to the scene and conducted a field search of the golf course, locating Childs lying in the grass about two hours after the initial call.
When Childs was found, he was wearing a brown leather holster on his hip, but no gun was in the holster.
Officers read Childs his Miranda rights, and Childs told officers he did not know what was going on. Childs was asked about the gun with him, and again Childs said he did not know what was going on or know where he was at.
Officers noted in reports Child appeared intoxicated, noting he was swaying back and forth, was lethargic, mumbled his speech and had small pupils.
Childs was asked what medicine he was on, and Childs said he'd taken a 10 mg Ambien, a prescription sleep aid, before bed but did not remember what time he went to bed.
Officers searched the area and found two spent .45 caliber shell casings, a Springfield Armory XD 45 APC handgun and an XD .45 caliber magazine in the area where Childs was located, according to the report. One officer said he gun was found underneath the grass, as if it had been hidden and not just dropped.
Officers also found a gouge mark in the gravel cart path. The mark was near where the shell casings had been found and where the other officers had been standing on the fairway. The mark appeared to travel from east to west across the cart path.
Later in the morning, detectives spoke with Childs' wife. She said she and Rick had been in an argument about 2 a.m. that morning. She said about 3 a.m. she left the residence, and Rick also left, going north on his motorcycle. She said when he left he was wearing his gun and his holster.
She said the only gun missing from the house was Rick's Springfield Armory XD 45 APC. She provided officers with the serial number for the gun, which matched that of the gun found on the golf course.
"Paperwork is being forwarded to the district attorney's office for review, to determine if additional charges will be filed against Mr. Childs," Capt. Jack Morris said.
Rick Andrew Childs, 45, was booked into Garfield County Detention Facility on complaints of assault and battery with a deadly weapon and public intoxication.
Enid Police Department officers were dispatched at 4:05 a.m. Sunday to the 1400 block of North Garland in reference to a motorcycle lying in the roadway with its headlight on, according to police. The motorcycle checked back to Childs, the owner of Wild Child's Gentlemen's Club.
While officers were impounding the motorcycle, an officer walked out east onto Pheasant Run Golf Course. Officers at the scene then heard what sounded like a gunshot. Officers search the scene for a possible victim but did not find one.
A wrecker service arrived to tow the motorcycle. While waiting for the motorcycle to be removed, officers heard a second gunshot. Officers searched along the golf course and heard a third shot from the northwest.
The third round went directly over the officers' heads and sounded like a ricochet, according to reports. As officers retreated to their patrol vehicles for cover, they heard two additional shots.
The department's SWAT Team was called to the scene and conducted a field search of the golf course, locating Childs lying in the grass about two hours after the initial call.
When Childs was found, he was wearing a brown leather holster on his hip, but no gun was in the holster.
Officers read Childs his Miranda rights, and Childs told officers he did not know what was going on. Childs was asked about the gun with him, and again Childs said he did not know what was going on or know where he was at.
Officers noted in reports Child appeared intoxicated, noting he was swaying back and forth, was lethargic, mumbled his speech and had small pupils.
Childs was asked what medicine he was on, and Childs said he'd taken a 10 mg Ambien, a prescription sleep aid, before bed but did not remember what time he went to bed.
Officers searched the area and found two spent .45 caliber shell casings, a Springfield Armory XD 45 APC handgun and an XD .45 caliber magazine in the area where Childs was located, according to the report. One officer said he gun was found underneath the grass, as if it had been hidden and not just dropped.
Officers also found a gouge mark in the gravel cart path. The mark was near where the shell casings had been found and where the other officers had been standing on the fairway. The mark appeared to travel from east to west across the cart path.
Later in the morning, detectives spoke with Childs' wife. She said she and Rick had been in an argument about 2 a.m. that morning. She said about 3 a.m. she left the residence, and Rick also left, going north on his motorcycle. She said when he left he was wearing his gun and his holster.
She said the only gun missing from the house was Rick's Springfield Armory XD 45 APC. She provided officers with the serial number for the gun, which matched that of the gun found on the golf course.
"Paperwork is being forwarded to the district attorney's office for review, to determine if additional charges will be filed against Mr. Childs," Capt. Jack Morris said.
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