Update:
Herlindo Urizar-Reyes (46, of Poteau) has been arrested on a charge of Accessory to Felony in connection with the shooting of McDaniel. Investigators are still working to identify and locate the shooter.
According to a press release from Assistant Poteau Police Chief, Greg Russell, on December 27, 2021 at 2:10 am, Poteau Police and Leflore County EMS were dispatched to the Economy Inn (2011 North Broadway in the city limits of Poteau) on a call of a shooting.
On arrival officers located a male subject (Wesley Lee McDaniel, 44, of Poteau) with a single gunshot wound to the chest.
McDaniel was transported by life flight to a Tulsa area hospital and is in critical, but stable condition.
Poteau Police Department Investigators are working the case. At this time there is no suspect information to release.
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