Warrick County Chase/Suicide
By: Import User
Updated: July 16, 2007
AN AFTERNOON POLICE CHASE ENDS WITH ONE MAN DEAD.THE CHASE BEGAN IN EVANSVILLE, THEN CROSSED INTO WARRICK COUNTY. POLICE SAY IT STARTED AROUND THREE OCLOCK WHEN OFFICERS NOTICED A MAN DRIVING THE WRONG WAY ON A ONE-WAY STREET. EVANSVIILE POLICE TRIED TO STOP HIM, BUT HE WOULDNT PULL OVER. POLICE THEN NOTICED HE WAS HOLDING A GUN TO HIS HEAD. THE PURSUIT CROSSED FROM VANDERBURGH INTO WARRICK COUNTY AND ENDED AT THE INTERSECTION OF STATE ROAD 62 AND MCCOOL ROAD. POLICE SAY THE DRIVER CAME TO A STOP IN FRONT OF CYPRESS BAPTIST CHURCH, WHEN THEY APPROACHED HIS CAR, OFFICERS SAW HE HAD SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF. MORE THAN 4 AGENCIES RESPONDED TO THE CALL...AND SAY PUBLIC SAFETY WAS THEIR MAIN CONCERN. AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT RELEASED THE MANS NAME OR AGE...THEY SAY HE DID HAVE A MINOR WARRANT, BUT THEYRE NOT SPECULATING ON HIS MOTIVE.
