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Robert Bates, a 73-year-old volunteer police officer who killed an unarmed man on April 2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma by mistakenly firing his gun instead of his taser, had for years been donating items to Tulsa police. Bates, an insurance executive, became a deputy officer in 2008. Police records show a number of donations he made between 2009 and 2012 to the Tulsa police department, but more donations were probably also made before 2008. Over the years Bates donated several vehicles, a forensic camera, a computer, a handheld radio and a Safe Fume Cyanoacrylate Fuming chamber designed to develop latent fingerprints. The sunglasses cameras worn by police during the shooting might also have been purchased by Bates. Bates was charged on Monday with second-degree manslaughter for the killing of 44-year-old Eric Harris. The incident was one of two documented shootings within this month in the United States in which a white officer shot and killed an unarmed black man. ----------------------------------------­--------------------- Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off. Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos: http://us.tomonews.net Check out our Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f Stay connected with us here: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/ Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus