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Grant Grable

Case # :200

Gender : Male

Age : 18

Race : Black

Date : 09/23/2022

Location :

City : Michigan City

County : LaPorte

State : Indiana

Agency : Michigan City PD

Officer(s) : Not Disclosed

Cause of death : Vehicle

Event : Killed by police during domestic violence call

Disposition : No Known charges

Open records summary :

A juvenile reported a domestic battery to an officer at the Michigan City PD. Police initiated an investigation into the domestic violence allegation and an 18-year-old male met with officers in the front lobby of the Michigan City PD. Police attempted to gather information from him but he ran away from them, got into a vehicle and drove away. Police tried to traffic-stop him but Grant Grable did not stop. Police escalated the chase to a high rate of speed and he drove through an intersection and struck the concrete pillars that provide a barrier to Ames Field, went airborne into the brick wall of the bleachers and through that wall coming to rest under the bleachers. Grable died.

Source links :

https://www.wndu.com/2022/09/23/illinois-teen-dies-after-leading-police-chase-crashing-into-ames-field-michigan-city/

https://www.wane.com/news/driver-killed-after-crashing-through-stadium-wall-in-michigan-city/