from north charleston this morning. another police shooting in oklahoma. robert bates is set to turn himself into authorities today. bates says it was an accident. he intended to taze the victim eric harris but mistakenly drew his gun. that s little consolation to harris family. his brother and the family s attorney spoke with cnn s new day. i was very pleased that the d.a. pressed charges against this individual and i m hoping to see more justice in this case. as the attorney for the family, i know that you have questioned why this reserve deputy was involved in this sting operation to begin with. dan, you have lots of questions about why he was on scene. absolutely. i mean i think the country now has seen a system where you ve
all right. are we going to head out to tulsa, oklahoma right now? mr. bates has now turned himself into authorities. i think he s charged with second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of a suspect. you saw that terrible video. there was a sting going down. police moved in to arrest a suspect. they wrestled him to the ground. this 73-year-old reserve deputy pulled what he thought was his taser ready to taser this suspect and then he inadvertently reached for his gun instead and shot the suspect and the suspect later died. ed lavandera is on the scene in tulsa, oklahoma with more on this. tell us more ed. good morning, carol. robert bates as you see this video just arrived here at the sheriff s department in tulsa to turn himself in. he arrived with his attorneys. we asked him if he wanted to
mistake, i have no clue. i really don t. so authorities say this was an excusable homicide. i suppose this man could argue that in the heat of the moment he made an honest tragic mistake and he s sorry about it. he probably will make that argument but that does not excuse the death in this case. excusable homicide is like self-defense or some sort of justified killing. in this case i don t think there s a question that the incident was an accident. he didn t mean to pull his gun and shoot eric harris. but he did. under oklahoma law an accident if negligent can constitute manslaughter and that s why they charged him the way they have. so going back to this idea of auxiliary officers harry, you said this man shouldn t have been in this particular situation. what are the duties of reserve officers normally? they usually like here in new york traffic, parking, that type of thing. if there s a parade or something
carol? some of these young girls managed to escape their captors. how are they coping? reporter: yes. very shortly after they were captured, 50 or so girls managed to get off the truck when it broke down and flee. they were then sort of reintegrated back into society. some of them are at an american school in the area in that northeastern area of nigeria. some of them are even in america. it s the trauma that these girls have to deal with for the rest of their life. as much as it s a personal journey they ve been through, it s also a group journey. they may have got away. they may be alive. they don t know what s happened to their friends, sisters, that were still out there kidnapped by boko haram, carol. christian purefoy, many things to you. we ll go back to oklahoma