HANCOCK COUNTY, Ohio — Police shot a murder suspect on Sunday afternoon after a pursuit down I-75 that started in Hancock County, according to a press release from the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
The chase started around 1:35 p.m. when OSHP troopers located a Chrysler Pacifica driving south through Hancock County that was believed to be driven by a suspect of a deadly shooting in Chicago, 45-year-old Danny E. Berry.
When officers tried to pull the car over, the vehicle took off.
The pursuit continued at a high rate of speed through Allen County and into Auglaize County.
OSHP said they used stop sticks multiple times but had to resort to making contact with the car in order to stop it.
The car came to rest in the median and caught fire. Berry then got out of the car with a handgun and began walking south in the southbound lanes of I-75. Police then shot the suspect, according to an Ohio State Highway Patrol press release.
He was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
This incident happened just south of U.S. Route 33.
This is the second police pursuit through Hancock County on I-75 in two days. On Saturday, police chased a stolen vehicle and captured two murder suspects southeast of Findlay.
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