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The Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office received a call about a stolen car. They located the vehicle and escalated a chase. The vehicle crashed on Cummings Skyway, fell into a ravine and the driver was killed.

https://contracosta.news/2023/10/31/crockett-man-ejected-from-vehicle-dies-after-brief-pursuit/

DPS states that a vehicle was seen possibly speeding and displaying what troopers called “fake license plates.” A chase was escalated that ended when the vehicle crashed into a cement barrier. Three of the occupants died with a fourth person dying later from injuries and 2 others were admitted to hospitals in unknown condition.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/death-toll-rises-to-4-after-crash-following-pursuit-in-central-in-oct-pursuit-chelsea-sunland-park

https://www.ktsm.com/news/4th-person-confirmed-dead-after-dps-chase-in-october/

DPS states that a vehicle was seen possibly speeding and displaying what troopers called “fake license plates.” A chase was escalated that ended when the vehicle crashed into a cement barrier. Three of the occupants died with a fourth person dying later from injuries and 2 others were admitted to hospitals in unknown condition.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/death-toll-rises-to-4-after-crash-following-pursuit-in-central-in-oct-pursuit-chelsea-sunland-park

https://www.ktsm.com/news/4th-person-confirmed-dead-after-dps-chase-in-october/

DPS states that a vehicle was seen possibly speeding and displaying what troopers called “fake license plates.” A chase was escalated that ended when the vehicle crashed into a cement barrier. Three of the occupants died with a fourth person dying later from injuries and 2 others were admitted to hospitals in unknown condition.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/death-toll-rises-to-4-after-crash-following-pursuit-in-central-in-oct-pursuit-chelsea-sunland-park

https://www.ktsm.com/news/4th-person-confirmed-dead-after-dps-chase-in-october/

DPS states that a vehicle was seen possibly speeding and displaying what troopers called “fake license plates.” A chase was escalated that ended when the vehicle crashed into a cement barrier. Three of the occupants died with a fourth person dying later from injuries and 2 others were admitted to hospitals in unknown condition.

https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/death-toll-rises-to-4-after-crash-following-pursuit-in-central-in-oct-pursuit-chelsea-sunland-park

https://www.ktsm.com/news/4th-person-confirmed-dead-after-dps-chase-in-october/

Texas DPS saw a Mazda with a paper license plate they felt was fake and took up chase which continued until the vehicle plowed into a concrete barrier. Several people were ejected. One person died and 6 were injured. Media in El Paso believe it may have been a vehicle full of migrants.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2023/10/30/el-paso-fatal-crash-texas-dps-i-10-gateway-chelsea-operation-lone-star/71382894007/

Texas DPS saw a Mazda with a paper license plate they felt was fake and took up chase which continued until the vehicle plowed into a concrete barrier. Several people were ejected. One person died and 6 were injured. Media in El Paso believe it may have been a vehicle full of migrants.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2023/10/30/el-paso-fatal-crash-texas-dps-i-10-gateway-chelsea-operation-lone-star/71382894007/

Virginia State Police saw a speeding motorcycle on I-264 and took up chase. They chased the motorcycle at 100 mph through an intersection until it crashed and the driver died.

https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/motorcycle-crash-rosemont-road-vb/291-17c57571-883c-4bc0-a6bc-d7b11789dccd

Texas DPS saw a Mazda with a paper license plate they felt was fake and took up chase which continued until the vehicle plowed into a concrete barrier. Several people were ejected. One person died and 6 were injured. Media in El Paso believe it may have been a vehicle full of migrants.

https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2023/10/30/el-paso-fatal-crash-texas-dps-i-10-gateway-chelsea-operation-lone-star/71382894007/

Missouri State Highway Patrol chased Sheila G. Roesch in her vehicle until she crashed, the vehicle burst into flames and she died. Police did not disclose why they undertook this fatal chase.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article281235428.html

Indiana police chased Anthony Wayne Grant from Branch County to LaGrange until he was broadsided by a Freightliner semi-truck after being chased through an intersection by pursuing police. Police did not disclose the reason for the long and dangerous chase.

https://www.goshennews.com/news/elkhart-man-dies-in-friday-lagrange-county-pursuit-wreck/article_569618ee-774f-11ee-8295-7736812618f9.html

Charleston PD saw a red sedan at 1:30 and tried to stop the driver who kept driving. Police escalated a chase that lasted until the man lost control at high speed, ran into a high voltage power line, the vehicle split in two and exploded in a fireball, killing the driver. According to police, they chased this vehicle into this crash after noticing he had “improperly working headlights.”

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/driver-dies-in-fiery-crash-after-police-chase-in-north-charleston-ncpd-wciv-abc-news-4

Ashland PD chased a man accused of domestic violence until he crashed into a fire truck and died.

https://kcby.com/news/local/sheriff-domestic-violence-shooting-suspect-dead-after-crashing-into-responding-fire-truck

Walla Walla County deputies escalated a chase until the driver crashed into a power pole and died. The Sheriff’s Department did not say why they chased the man, merely stated they tried to arrest him. Washington State originally in April of 2021 prohibited almost all police pursuits. This was fought by the GOP and police unions and in 2023, the Washington State Legislature passed and governor Jay Inslee signed a reversal of many of the pursuit restrictions, allowing pursuits in certain cases. Police have not yet disclosed why they initiated this pursuit. All new information will be posted here when it becomes available.

https://www.nbcrightnow.com/news/man-dead-following-pursuit-car-crash-near-walla-walla/article_5860618e-76a5-11ee-8bf5-6b87b5ced3ff.html

Detective James Michael Lett struck a guardrail and died while on duty.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/26834-detective-james-michael-mike-lett

Sugar Land PD escalated a chase against a driver whom they have not identified. Police chased him until he crashed into a tree and died. Police did not say why they chased him but upon announcing the news, they assured the public that whatever the reasons were, they were “within policy.”

https://abc13.com/sugar-land-chase-suspect-crashes-into-tree-west-airport-dies-after-crash/13988362/

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/10/29/driver-dies-after-vehicle-crashes-into-tree-following-chase-in-sugar-land/

Kendall Radford allegedly stabbed his wife in a domestic altercation, then fled from police. During a high-speed chase, he crossed over the median and hit the guardrail on the other side and died.

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/local/stabbing-suspect-kendall-radford-ohio-county/417-6cc11b8f-5fde-4858-b8a6-9f1e91d50499

Police chased a pickup truck that was believed to be stolen until it crashed into a tree, killing the female passenger.

https://sweetjames.com/2023/11/07/woman-dies-police-pursuit-collision-grand-parkway-tomball-tx/

New Franklin PD chased a motorcycle that was speeding and escalated a chase. The motorcycle crashed and passenger Roseanne Mauk, 40, was killed. The male driver was apprehended after a foot chase.

https://www.jordanmiller.news/2023/10/27/police-minerva-man-charged-in-death-of-motorcycle-passenger-after-crashing-fleeing-on-foot/

Texas DPS hunted a stolen vehicle during city traffic at high speed until it hit a third-party driver and killing an unnamed woman who had been driving when killed by the police chase crash.

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/harris-county-chase-ends-in-accident-one-person-reported-dead

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/northwest-harris-county-chase-death/285-fe5a8fe9-bdd5-425c-8319-48657b1eff67

https://abc13.com/grand-parkway-crash-tomball-houston-traffic-whats-happening-on-249-and-texas-99/13981834/

Pennsylvania State Police hunted a motorcycle until it crashed into a guard rail and the driver died on 10/27/2023. Police did not disclose why then escalated this deadly chase.

https://www.wgal.com/article/pennsylvania-state-police-chase-motorcyclist-killed/45664487#

https://6abc.com/lancaster-police-chase-motorcycle-crash-chester-county/13979515/

Kendra Outlaw, 16, was chased by DC Metro PD for driving a stolen car and crashed and died at Brentwood Road and Bryant Street and died as a result of the chase.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-police-id-16-year-old-killed-after-crashing-carjacked-vehicle-at-northeast-traffic-circle

A 7-year-old boy was crossing the street in what is believed to have been the crosswalk with his mother when an NYPD tow truck turned the corner of Myrtle Avenue and North Portland Avenue just above Fort Greene Park. The tow truck during the right turn hit and killed the boy.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/7-year-old-boy-struck-and-killed-by-nypd-tow-truck-in-brooklyn-intersection-police/4803218/

Desiree Andrea Knittle was a pedestrian on State Highway 81 when she was hit and killed by a trooper who was apparently speeding to a call.

Desiree Andrea Knittle was a pedestrian on State Highway 81 when she was hit and killed by a trooper who was apparently speeding to a call.

After a shooting was reported in Parramore, deputies arrived and began chasing a vehicle until it crashed into oncoming traffic. The fleeing driver died and the passenger was hospitalized.

https://www.wftv.com/news/photos-michigan/BM3P5GTQSRERJCVYS4GINQW7KI/

An unnamed 50-year-old man on a motorcycle hit a deer on I-75 in Palmetto and was thrown from his motorcycle. Florida Highway Patrol came to help and ran over and killed the man who had been injured in the road.

https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/10/25/sarasota-man-killed-motorcycle-crash-fhp-trooper-involved-collision/

https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-highway-patrol-motorcyclist-interstate-crash-fatal-manatee-county-sarasota

Police began hunting a car in Wayne County, West Virginia and ended in Huntington after an intense high-speed chase by at least 2 police departments together. The chase ended when the vehicle crashed while being chased.
Four people were inside the other car involved in the crash.
A 68-year-old man was driving, and the passengers were identified as a 43-year-old man, a 16-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old girl. All four were transported to the hospital for medical treatment. Officials say the 16-year-old died at the hospital as a result of his injuries.

Police have not explained why they hunted this family so extensively until this fatal crash.

https://www.wsaz.com/2023/10/24/police-pursuit-ends-deadly-crash-15-year-old-killed/

Thurston County deputies came upon a group of people doing donuts in the street. When police arrived, a car fled and police escalated a high-speed chase. Police “called off the chase” and the fleeing vehicle crashed shortly thereafter, killing the passenger, a man in his 20s who was not publicly identified. Police stressed that at the moment of impact, they were no longer chasing the vehicle, with calling off a chase when a driver is losing control and a major crash is imminent being a common police tactic to evade the responsibility of an “in-custody” death since all events during a chase are legally considered as happening in custody already.

https://www.thejoltnews.com/stories/fleeing-driver-kills-passenger-in-crash-following-high-speed-police-chase,12787?

Parker’s vehicle was stopped in traffic, waiting to make a left-hand turn when a Thayer Police Department officer’s SUV crashed into the back of Parker’s vehicle, knocking it into the path of a semi, killing him.

https://www.ky3.com/2023/10/23/police-investigate-deadly-crash-involving-patrol-cruiser-thayer-mo/

Correctional Officer Kelly Rolando was killed in a vehicle crash at 7:14 p.m. on the 54 Bypass in Mexico, Missouri.

Officer Rolando was returning to the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green from a temporary assignment at the University Hospital in Columbia when he collided head-on with a vehicle traveling southbound.

He and Jeffrey Jappa, the driver of the other vehicle, were killed instantly.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/26814-correctional-officer-i-kelly-bernard-rolando

https://abc17news.com/news/mexico/2023/10/23/two-dead-after-crash-in-mexico-missouri/

Correctional Officer Kelly Rolando was killed in a vehicle crash at 7:14 p.m. on the 54 Bypass in Mexico, Missouri.

Officer Rolando was returning to the Northeast Correctional Center in Bowling Green from a temporary assignment at the University Hospital in Columbia when he collided head-on with a vehicle traveling southbound.

He and the driver of the other vehicle were killed instantly.

https://www.odmp.org/officer/26814-correctional-officer-i-kelly-bernard-rolando

Cass County deputies were chasing a vehicle they felt to be stolen and escalated a chase when the car lost control on Old 205 and Cassopolis Road, hit a tree and the passenger, 49-year-old Adrian Smith died.

https://www.fox17online.com/news/local-news/indiana-man-dies-after-cass-county-pursuit-ends-with-crash

https://www.leaderpub.com/2023/10/22/elkhart-man-dies-after-striking-tree-during-police-chase/

https://news.yahoo.com/elkhart-man-dead-following-pursuit-022000672.html

Police arrived at the home of Jaiquavious Williams to arrest him for a prior offense of pointing a gun at someone. He fled and police escalated a chase, placed stop sticks, whereupon the vehicle went airborne, hit a fence, rolled on top of other cars and caught on fire. Williams was killed.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/vehicle-erupts-flames-overnight-west-charlotte/PPHXVEYVI5C7PFUW7APAWLWE7E/

The Ontario Police Department asked the Fayette Sheriff’s Office for help chasing a vehicle that was heading into Fruitland, Idaho. Police said they were chasing the vehicle because it was a Jetta without headlights and without license plates that may be driving too fast. Police chased the Jetta to Elmore Road and US-30 where it left the road, crashed into a canal and hit concrete. A 16-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy died in the crash. They have not been identified so far. Police allege that the Jetta was stolen.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article280903363.html

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article281113863.html

The Ontario Police Department asked the Fayette Sheriff’s Office for help chasing a vehicle that was heading into Fruitland, Idaho. Police said they were chasing the vehicle because it was a Jetta without headlights and without license plates that may be driving too fast. Police chased the Jetta to Elmore Road and US-30 where it left the road, crashed into a canal and hit concrete. A 16-year-old girl and a 19-year-old boy died in the crash. They have not been identified so far. Police allege that the Jetta was stolen.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article280903363.html

https://www.gofundme.com/f/memorial-fund-for-lily-loweellis

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article281113863.html

Around 11:15 p.m. on October 21, 2023, Bay PD Officer Shull informed dispatch that he was “in pursuit of a side-by-side.” Several minutes into it, Shull informed dispatch that he had hit the driver. In his next radio call, Shull mused that the vehicle “may be stolen” and he justified this assumption by stating that “it is brand new.” It is not known what type of vehicle it had been. Only 26 seconds later, Officer Shull again radio’d dispatch and announced “I just hit him. Dispatch. He wrecked out.”
Less than a minute later, Officer Shull was back on the radio, requesting an ambulance and then asking for a medical helicopter because McMasters was “bleeding from the nose and mouth.” A total of 80 seconds after the crash, he announced that McMasters was “10-7”, the code for deceased.
The family of Steven Kyle McMasters disputes the officer’s remarks that the vehicle may be stolen which was the assumption that led Officer Shull to make the fatal decision to chase the vehicle on a maybe apparently. Officer Shull then announced beer “near” the side-by-side, formulating the next accusation against the deceased motorist. The family strongly denies the claims about intoxication and has hired a lawyer.
Bay Police Chief declined to release information about the incident. The City of Bay has cited an ongoing investigation into their inability to remove the incident’s body and dash camera footage. The Arkansas State Police are currently involved in the investigation.

Bay PD Police Chief Keith Milam declined giving more information about the crash. He also refused to allow the City of Bay to investigate the bodycam and dashcam footage.

Chief Milam initially stated the officer would not be placed on leave for this incident. This was changed later when the case began being dissected in the media and Shull was then placed on paid administrative leave.

Chief Milam stated he could not comment because Arkansas State Police were investigating the critical incident. Arkansas State Police were questioned about this by media and said they were not aware of any investigation. Bodycam and dashcam allegedly exist and have again been requested by media but so far were met with the unwillingness of the Police Chief to share these records. This summary will be updated when more details become available.

https://www.kait8.com/2023/10/23/officers-radio-traffic-reveals-his-perspective-tragic-pursuit-ending-death/

Cleveland PD admitted that they escalated a car chase in Cleveland with Willowick PD at high speeds until the vehicle crashed on 92nd Street and St. Clair Avenue. One person died in the massive crash with a third-party vehicle as a result of the police chase. Police did not say why they escalated this deadly chase.

https://www.cleveland19.com/2023/10/21/1-dead-after-willowick-police-chase-ends-cleveland-crash/

https://fox8.com/news/wickliffe-police-video-chase-leads-to-deadly-crash/

A Baton Rouge officer crashed into eight vehicles while racing to Government Street where someone had allegedly fired at police. The officer involved in this wreck was traveling at unknown speed, hit a Domino’s delivery driver and 7 other cars. The impact ejected the engine of the pizza delivery vehicle and sent it airborne. Caleb James Chapetta, a third-party motorist who was on the road when the police cruiser crashed into multiple cars at once, was ejected from his vehicle from the high-speed impact and died. The exact speed of the officer is unknown. Also unknown is the necessity of the racing cruiser as multiple vehicles typically respond to a “shots fired” call and the need for numerous police cars to race through town commonly presents duplicate efforts and risks.

https://www.brproud.com/news/brpd-vehicle-in-wreck-on-government-street-police-exchanged-fire-with-suspects-at-second-location/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcaI6qp9hmY

Renton PD and Washington State Police chased a vehicle at high speed for undisclosed reasons until the driver crashed into an SUV on the highway at 154th Pl. SE at around 10:16 p.m. The fleeing driver died and the third-party SUV driver was critically injured with current condition unknown.

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/suspect-dies-after-crashing-in-high-speed-chase-through-renton

Miami PD attempted a traffic stop and police from the interventional robbery unit allegedly chased the vehicle. The driver allegedly closed the door and the detective’s hand was caught in the door. The car fled and police escalated a chase until the vehicle rolled over and crashed into a house, causing significant damage to the home. Police allege that a gun flew out of the vehicle when it rolled over and was found nearby. Police state that the vehicle was a rental car and that it was not clear whether it was stolen or if the teenager had been permitted to drive it at this time. It is unclear why police created this deadly chase as no reason was given when Miami PD reported the death.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/driver-17-killed-following-chase-crash-in-florida-city-miami-dade-police-say/