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Name Not Disclosed

Case # :852

Gender : Male

Age :

Race : Unknown

Date : 10/23/2023

Location : 62nd Ave SE

City : Nisqually

County : Thurston

State : Washington

Agency : Thurston County SO

Officer(s) : Unknown

Cause of death : Vehicle

Event : Passenger killed by police chase crash

Disposition : No Known charges

Open records summary :

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.

Source links :

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