CHOCTAW COUNTY, Okla. (KTEN) -- "A careless disregard for human life."

That's what Randy Springfield, executive director of the Choctaw County Ambulance Authority, said about the thief who stole one of their ambulances while it was responding to a call at a Soper home as paramedics tried to save a man's life late Sunday night.

The patient later died after being driven to a hospital in Paris, Texas, in a private vehicle.

KTEN obtained the ambulance surveillance footage showing the man who stole the vehicle. 

The suspect is equipped with a headlamp, gloves, and a face covering. He ran through stop signs, hit ditches, and flew through rural dirt roads, damaging the  ambulance and putting it out of service until the damage is fully examined by a mechanic.

The man stole about $1,000 worth of medicine and supplies, but was unable to steal narcotics, which is what law enforcement thinks he was after.

Officers were able to track and recover the ambulance about three miles southeast of Soper.

Springfield said it's believed that the suspect lives in the area, since he seemed familiar with the roads and where he was going.

"Sheriff Park and I was talking, and he stated that in over 25 years of law enforcement, this has never happened on his watch, and in this area, so this is a first for our agency and his," Springfield said. "I feel that he watched the ambulance, he stalked it, he saw that it was vulnerable. Our ambulance, like I said, we were responding to a 911 call, they were there for a reason -- to help someone. And this young man did not care."

Springfield also told KTEN he is working to install new security procedures to reduce the chance that this could happen again.

The Choctaw County Sheriff's Office and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspect.

If you have any information, call the sheriff's office at 580-326-2130.