Update: Details Emerge on Police Chase Into University City
The chase ended when the University City man turned towards an officer and pulled a weapon out of his waistband, and the Maryland Heights officer fired a shot.
A University City man faces charges with two counts of assaulting an officer after a high-speed police chase that started in Maryland Heights Monday. Patch reported earlier that a man led several led several police agencies on a chase from Maryland Heights into University City late Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Maryland Heights Police reported an officer had pulled over Jorge Wallace, 25, of the 600 block of Geoffry Lane in University City, at 11:48 p.m. Monday. The officer said the traffic stop, at Barrington and Summer House Drive, was for straddling the dividing lines on the road. The officer said Wallace drove off, turned his car around and drove at the officer’s squad car at a high rate of speed. The officer had to quickly …
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MikeyParks
3:04 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
That cop needs to spend a little more time at the shooting range. more ›