Vandal Later Dies Attempting To Evade Police

A truly bizarre tale of airport vandalism has resulted in some extraordinary damage to a number of aircraft at the Perry OK airport and has also resulted in the death of the vandal who caused the damage.

Early Friday morning, Brandon Cliff Shearer, 25, of Oklahoma City, allegedly drove a stolen Vance AFB Fire Truck onto the grounds of the Perry, OK, airport.

According to published reports attributed to Perry City Attorney Bryce Kennedy, Shearer was traveling north on Interstate 35, when he turned off onto Airport Road and drove into the Perry Municipal Airport. He drove his car into a ditch but "was able to enter the airport’s terminal and one of the hangers where two Vance Fire Department vehicles and a plane were being stored."

Shearer entered the fire truck, started it and then drove it right into an aircraft, pushing it through the wall of the hanger and into the men’s room of the terminal. If that wasn't enough, Shearer continued the path of destruction by striking three more hangers, damaging another plane and also striking a building occupied by three Eagle Med EMTs and a propane tank, Kennedy reported.

Shearer then abandoned the truck, stealing a 1998 Ford Expedition belonging to the Vance Fire Department and led police on a chase that extended out to the Cimmarron Turnpike where Shearer struck another vehicle head on -- driving the wrong way -- and died in the ensuing collision. The driver Shearer collided with, Robert David Fisher, 35, of Cleveland, OK, was taken to Tulsa's St. John’s Hospital where he is listed with head, trunk and internal and external arm and leg injuries.

The damage left at the airport is considerable. According to local media reports, one of the aircraft, a Cessna P337, owned by the family of Enid OK resident Dee Ann Ediger, was pushed through the wall of the hangar and into the men’s room of the terminal.

Ediger reported that, "We had a plane... The carcass is still here." The aircraft is reported to be totaled and was to leave for a trip to Colorado later in the day. "That’s not going to happen now," Ediger noted.

ANN thanks Aero-News Readers David Henry, and Mike Newman for the amazing pictures used in this report.

FMI: www.perryok.org