By BRENT MARTIN

St. Joseph Post

 

A suspect in a car shooting has been killed after he flipped his car fleeing from a state highway patrol trooper, pinning him underneath off Interstate 35 north of Cameron.

Missouri Highway Patrol Troop H spokesman, Sergeant Jake Angle, says the patrol received a call about shots being fired on I-35 at around seven o’clock this morning. An occupant of a vehicle had been struck and suffered what is believed to be non-life-threatening injuries. He was taken to a local hospital.

“The suspect fired into another vehicle, striking another occupant of a different vehicle,” Angle tells St. Joseph Post. “Preliminary indications are that those injuries are non-life-threatening as well. That occupant also was transported to a local area hospital. And then, it was just shortly afterward that our trooper was able to spot the vehicle and initiated the pursuit.”

Angle says the high-speed chase continued on I-35, north of Cameron.

“At approximately the 63 mile marker, the suspect fired shots at the trooper who was in pursuit,” according to Angle. “At that time, our trooper returned fire. At Exit 64, the vehicle went off the right side of the road and overturned and, as a result of that traffic crash, the suspect was found pinned underneath the vehicle.”

Angle says the Daviess County Coroner arrived at the scene and pronounced the suspect dead. An autopsy is being performed.

No troopers were injured during the pursuit.