Video exhibits couple stealing semi with driver inside at Ohio TA truck cease previous to deadly shootout with cops
Physique cam video launched by the London Police Division (LPD) out of Ohio exhibits a tense standoff at a truck cease as two suspects stole a semi truck with the truck driver nonetheless inside.
The video was captured early on August 2 after an LPD officer stopped a male and a feminine in a passenger car for no back lights or seen registration. The suspects fled the visitors cease on US 42 north out of London to the truck cease, the place the exited the car and entered a parked semi truck with the driving force nonetheless inside.
Within the physique cam video under, you possibly can see the police response because the couple makes an attempt to drive off with a bobtail truck with the driving force nonetheless inside.
On the finish of the video, you possibly can see the truck flee the truck cease adopted by police, hanging a police cruiser on the best way. No officers had been damage.
A number of legislation enforcement companies pursued the truck to an entry street off I-70 close to the Dayton Worldwide Airport.
The Ohio State Freeway Patrol offers an replace on how the hostage negation and police standoff ended:
“At 3:23 a.m. the Ohio State Freeway Patrol Particular Response Group (SRT) assisted the London Police Division for an lively hostage scenario. Upon the Patrol’s arrival, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Workplace was negotiating with the suspects. At roughly 7:30 a.m., the Patrol’s SRT approached the semi in an try to take away the hostage. As troopers approached, they had been fired upon. Troopers returned hearth, hanging each the female and male suspects.
The hostage was faraway from the truck to a secure space with minor accidents. Troopers re-approached the semi to take each the female and male into custody. Each suspects had been transported to the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton with life-threatening accidents.”
Each the female and male suspects died whereas within the hospital from the gunshot wounds.
The incident is beneath investigation by the Bureau of Felony Investigation.
