A Tulsa doctor will have to pay up after a teenage prank went too far.
Tonight a jury found Doctor Richard Cooper guilty of five counts of assault and batter and damaging a vehicle.
This stems from an incident that happened last April. Cooper chased down a group of teens with a baseball bat after they were in his neighborhood accused of ringing doors bells and then taking off.
A jury found Cooper guilty of five counts of assault and battery and one count of injury to vehicle.
Fox 23’s Abbie Alford spoke with the prosecutor and found out Cooper wont face jail time instead he’ll have to pay $1,700 in fines.
Doctor Cooper originally faced nine charges.
Fox 23 obtained a copy of the 911 calls made that night; it’s the same recordings the jury heard.
A total of five 911 calls for police and two of them were from Richard Coopers wife, Theresa before the attack.
Theresa: “I'm telling you they are in the middle of our drive way and they have done this before. This is not, this, we've had issues in this neighborhood before."
Issues the family was left to handle on their own.
Dispatcher: "Right now we don't have any officers available."
Call number two and this time Cooper’s wife has a bad feeling.
Theresa: "There are a bunch of cars circling in our drive way, ringing our doorbell and this has happened before in the middle of the night and my husband is getting in his car to go out and chase them chase them down. "Something is going to happen."
According to police reports what happened next is Doctor Cooper chased the teens about six blocks and it turned ugly.
Theresa: "He caught up with the kids that were standing at our door and ringing our doorbell and he smashed in their car window."
That’s when a witness calls and you can hear the teens screaming.
Witness: "We've got a man that is busting out windows of teenagers cars and screaming at them.”
Dispatcher: “What is he doing, what does he have to bust them out with?”
Witness: "He has a bat."
Then someone in the background questions the witness.
Unidentified person: "Are the police coming?”
Witness: “Yeah they are for you. We need police immediately."
Fox 23’s Abbie Alford went to Cooper’s home to ask for a comment but the person who answered the door said he was not home.
Court records show the families of the six teens are also suing Richard Cooper for civil damages more than $10,000.
A settlement hearing is scheduled for March 27th, 2009.
