An attempted robbery on Brainerd Road evolved into a police chase with a stolen squad car Saturday night, leaving one suspect in police custody and another dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.A Gulfport, Miss., man who turned a gun on himself after taking a Chattanooga Police Department patrol car over the weekend has been identified as 37-year-old Antonio Sheffield, according to Georgia authorities.
Sheffield, who was a federally convicted felon, is suspected of attempting to rob a Brainerd business, Tiffany Nails, 5509 Brainerd Road, on Saturday night. He was located by police an hour after the robbery at CVS Pharmacy on Brainerd Road.
Police had detained 46-year-old Darryl Roberts in the back of a patrol car. Police made contact with a second suspect, Sheffield, at the Economy Inn, 5505 Brainerd Road. He opened fired on officers.
Police fired back. Sheffield fled around the building before pistol whipping an officer and stealing the patrol car that Roberts was in.
Sheffield sped away in the stolen patrol car across the state line to Georgia. The vehicle crashed.