A man pursued by authorities in a three-county chase in Northeast Alabama at one point slowed down enough to allow a passenger to jump out before later crashing into patrol cars and being shot by police.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency hasn’t released any additional information since Sunday night, and that was only to confirm that the Alabama Bureau of Investigation was probing the shooting.
But authorities in the Blount County town of Snead said it all started there.
Snead Police Department Chief Stephen Gunn said the incident began after an officer spotted a blue Ford Explorer with no license plate that took off at a “high rate of speed across private property.”
When the officer got behind the vehicle, the driver passed two other vehicles on a double-yellow line on Alabama Highway 75, initiating the pursuit, Gunn said.