Claim: Kerry Pettingill(born September, 1958) served as commander of the OHP Bomb Squad was the first to respond to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Evidence: He served as commander of the OHP Bomb Squad, OHP Tactical Operations Team, and as liaison to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Kerry Pettingill (born September 13, 1958) is a retired American police officer in the state of Oklahoma. In his position as OHP's SWAT commander, Pettingill was one of the first to respond to the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.