Former Oklahoma House Member Suspended

According to Hastings’ arrest report, the former legislator pointed a loaded firearm at his ex-wife’s head, asking her “if she wanted to be shot in the head or stomach.”

According to the report, Hastings also told his ex-wife “you are going to die today.”

The birthdate on Hastings’ arrest report matches the birthdate in his legislative profile.

The address where he was arrested Tuesday matches the address in previous arrest and protective order documents.

No one was physically harmed during the encounter, according to police, and Hastings was eventually removed from the residence by TPD’s special operations team, the affidavit states.

He was booked into the Tulsa jail in lieu of $20,500 on pointing a deadly weapon and resisting arrest complaints, jail records show. He bonded out at 8:36 a.m. Wednesday.

Hastings, who holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Tulsa, according to his biography page at his law firm’s website, was elected in 1994.

He left politics in 2005 after his term limit expired and has since been practicing law in the state, according to the Oklahoma Bar Association. The Hastings and Associates website says Hastings founded the law office in 2001.

Phone calls to Hastings and Associates were not returned Wednesday.

In 2011, Hastings’ wife filed for divorce, but later reconciled with her husband, and the divorce was never granted.

The pair also filed protective orders against each other that year — she alleged that he had been abusing drugs and had become violent toward her, and he alleged that his wife had attacked him with both her hands and a knife.

The Hastings eventually divorced last June.

In 2012, two protective orders were granted after Hastings’ brother-in-law alleged he had recorded phone conversations where Hastings had threatened “to kill or have killed me and my family.”

The protective orders also alleged Hastings had threatened and harassed his wife throughout that time.