Oklahoma City police sergeants Carlton Tschetter, Eric Reyes and Kolby Hysell received a 2026 Officer Valor Award for rescuing a woman from an overturned vehicle in a creek. The award announcement on Officer.com gives the incident date as January 8, 2026. The date discrepancy identified in the assessment remains unresolved.
News 9 reported that the vehicle went into a creek near Southwest 59th Street and Sara Road, and that body-camera video shows the sergeants responding. The account on Officer.com says Tschetter and Hysell entered the water and opened the vehicle, while Reyes cut the driver’s seatbelt and Tschetter kept her head above the water.
The Officer.com award account says the officers brought the woman up a steep, ice-covered embankment. On solid ground, Tschetter performed CPR until she expelled water and her vital signs returned. She was taken to a hospital and admitted in critical but stable condition, according to the account.
