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Barry Styles, then 58, of Bixby, Oklahoma, was shot by Tulsa police after they said he threatened employees at Renda Broadcasting's Tulsa radio offices with a handgun on Jan. 13, 2010, and later pleaded guilty to five felony assault counts.

Officer Jason Willingham said Styles entered the seventh-floor offices at 7030 S. Yale Ave., which housed KBEZ and KHTT, around 1 p.m. and asked for two on-air personalities, including KBEZ's Carly Rush. Told they weren't in, he left briefly, then returned with a handgun and walked the halls pointing it at employees, police said.

A receptionist slipped into another room to call 911 and stayed on the line with a dispatcher as Styles moved through the building. She told the dispatcher the gunman had identified himself as "Josey Wales," the outlaw played by Clint Eastwood in the 1976 western of the same name, according to court records.

Officers found Styles in a hallway, and he brandished the weapon, Willingham said. Officer Jeff Henderson fired three shots, hitting Styles once in the hip. Styles was taken to St. Francis Hospital in serious condition and was booked into the Tulsa County jail 10 days later, on Jan. 23, 2010.

Prosecutors charged Styles with five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, one for each employee authorities said he threatened, and his bond was set at $125,557. Separately, Wagoner County was already pursuing him on a charge of possessing a sawed-off shotgun from May 2009.

The case stalled for nearly two years after a defense attorney raised concerns about Styles' mental health. A court-ordered evaluation found him incompetent to stand trial, and forensic psychologist Shawn Roberson diagnosed him as bipolar and delusional, reporting that Styles believed country singers were stealing songs he had written using surveillance technology tied to the federal government.

Styles was committed to the Oklahoma Forensic Center in Vinita in May 2010. After staff there reported him stabilized on medication, Special Judge David Youll found him competent to be prosecuted in December 2011. Styles pleaded guilty in January 2012 under a deal calling for a 15-year sentence, and that March Tulsa County District Judge Kurt Glassco imposed a split sentence of prison time followed by two years of probation, with credit for time already served. Styles told the judge he was "very sorry for what I did" and said he had been off his medication at the time of the shooting.