(NEWSER) – An assistant pastor killed during an encounter with Oklahoma troopers Friday night played a key role in his own demise, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. In a short press conference today, Capt. Paul Timmons said the shooting victim, Nehemiah Fischer, attacked a trooper and was carrying a gun when he was shot, Tulsa World reports. Timmons also presented part of a dash cam video that shows two officers shouting at the assistant pastor and his brother, Brandon Fischer, who were apparently stuck in rising floodwaters trying to push a truck. "Come out of that water! State troopers!" a trooper shouts in the video. "Settle down, you understand me? Settle down." Two men can be seen entering the video; one rushes a trooper, while the other trooper draws his gun.
Meanwhile, Brandon, 41, appeared in district court today via video feed over two complaints: public intoxication and assault and battery on an officer. And Nehemiah's father, JR Fischer, described himself as confused and heartbroken: "If it was going to happen to anybody, it should have happened to me because all my boys are twice the man that I am," he says. The pastor at Nehemiah's Faith Bible Church is also shocked, saying that his 35-year-old assistant pastor "would never charge someone who is an officer. That’s just not him. It doesn’t make any sense." Nehemiah and Brandon were fishing on their dad's property in rural Okmulgee County when their truck stalled and the troopers showed up at around 9:30pm. The troopers—one with a year's experience, and one with eight—are on administrative leave, the AP reports.
