over seas and successfully returning to attack and this case now in ohio also seems to feet into that pattern. thank you. you re welcome. the volunteer sheriff s deputy, as they call him, who says he shot and killed an unarmed suspect by accident, spoke out publicly for the first time since the incident. in an interview with the today show he said it s unbelievably unfair, as he put it, for the media to portray him as a wealthy donor who paid to join the force. he says he is certified to be a reserve deputy he has it in writing. this comes after the tulsa world newspaper reported the volunteer deputy had fake training records. according to the report somebody ordered supervisors at the tulsa county sheriff s office to give the deputy credit for field training and weapons certificationses he should never have received. we actually contacted the sheriffs department yesterday, and they said blame the messenger but didn t deny that any of it was true.
this was not an intentional thing. i have no desire to ever take anyone s life. reporter: in this video, watched by millions you can see the final run of eric harris. tulsa s share itch deputies running an undercover operation tried to arrest harris for selling them a gun but he takes off. you can hear bates yell. now! now! oh i shot him. i m sorry. reporter: the mixup is something the 73-year-old part-time deputy an insurance executive tried explaining during his today show interview. my tase sir right here. on the front tucked in a protective vest. my gun itself is on my side. normally to the rear. reporter: over the years, bates has had a close relationship with the sheriff s office donating five cars and equipment and money to the sheriff s re-election campaign. now there are explosive allegations being reported by the tulsa world newspaper.
this tease. when i bother to show up for it. what do you have? another jaw-dropping report on that volunteer deputy in oklahoma who says he reached for his taser but wound up shooting a man dead with his gun. turns out, his certification to carry that gun was fake. that s according to the tulsa world newspaper. it s reporting this millionaire donor didn t get all the required training, but somebody forced supervisors to give him certificates any way. wait till you hear what happened when one guy refused to lie for the man, the man who shot a guy dead with his, oops, gun. we ll have all the new revelations and the response from the sheriff s department coming up the top of the hour on shepard smith reporting. last week we told but a survivor of the ft. hood massacre being awarded the purple heart. sean manning received the honor, but manning was denied health benefits. now thanks to fox s reporting, that is going to change.
neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall stop the gyro copter from landing on the mall. in an effort to remind us that money has stolen the democracy? that is his message. we can t even really confirm it but you are entitled to your own opinion. the word is guys out, guys free, guy can go, but faces serious charges our mailman from tampa. charges could send them to prison for four years, after me eh managed to fly the gyrocopter under the radar literally and set off panic in the nation s capitol. this is not good, people. no this is not good the pilot is a mailman from florida. he told the newspaper down there the tampa bay ties he figured his bosses would fire him but he did it. he appeared in court, not only did he appear in court.
about the plan in 2013. we re told the agents tipped off the capitol police, guy is going to fly in there they conducted a thorough investigation, as they put it. the pilot told the his plan to the tampa bay times newspaper, made a video. there s the video. that newspaper even had a reporter in washington for the landing that gyrocopter guy promised and and it did, right there he told his plan to anybody who would listen. i will tell you completely honestly, i d rather die in the flight than live to be 80 years old and see this country fall. at the pentagon, officials tell fox news that radar never picked up the incoming pilot. nor rad, which can find santa, did nothing to stop it. an official said officers would