By BRENT MARTIN

St. Joseph Post

Preliminary autopsy results indicate a citizen of Mexico who fled authorities Friday in a rolling gun battle north on Interstate 35 near Cameron died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol identifies the suspect as 26-year-old Julian Santiago-Cruz of Guadalupe Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Calls came into the state patrol’s Troop H at 7 o’clock Friday reporting shots fired on I-35. Santiago-Cruz is suspected of shooting at two vehicles, wounding two. A trooper saw the vehicle as described by motorists and pursued. The patrol says Santiago-Cruz shot at the trooper who returned fire. The chase ended when the suspect’s car left the right side of I-35 and overturned. He was found pinned underneath his car and pronounced dead at the scene by the Daviess County Coroner. Preliminary autopsy results indicate Santiago-Cruz shot himself.

No troopers were injured during the pursuit.