The Colorado State Patrol this week released video, from both dashcam and body-worn camera footage, of when a suspect stole a trooper’s car and then later crashed into a tractor-trailer after running over a spike strip. The suspect died from injuries sustained in the crash.
Video Shows Cuffed Suspect Stealing CO State Patrol Car Before Fatal Crash
The Colorado State Patrol this week released video, from both dashcam and body-worn camera footage, of when a suspect stole a trooper’s car and then later crashed into a tractor-trailer after running over stop sticks.

Extinguishers are used to control a car fire after a suspect stole this Colorado State Patrol vehicle, fled from troopers, and then crashed into a tractor-trailer.
Colorado State Patrol video
The situation started when troopers responded to assist Otero County deputies June 20 in pursuit of a vehicle reported to have been connected to a “shots fired” call, reports 11News, one of the local media outlets that aired the video. The state patrol reports the fleeing suspect was reported to have caused multiple crashes and attempted to cause head-on collisions with other vehicles.
Troopers performed a tactical vehicle intervention to stop the suspect vehicle during the original pursuit, the agency said in a media release.

A trooper takes action to stop a suspect sought in connection to a shots fired call. The same suspect later was pursued again after he stole a patrol vehicle while he was in custody.
Colorado State Patrol video
However, after being cuffed and placed into the back of a trooper’s patrol vehicle, the male suspect was able to slip his cuffs under his feet and climb into the driver’s seat of the marked vehicle.

The suspect moves around in the back seat of a trooper's car while slipping his cuffs beneath his feet to bring his hands to the front before stealing the car.
Colorado State Patrol video
The state patrol reports that troopers and officers on the scene pursued the man in the stolen patrol vehicle and spikes were deployed.
“After hitting the (spike strip), the suspect in the patrol vehicle lost control, crashed into the side of a stopped commercial motor vehicle parked on the side of Highway 50 and caught on fire,” the state patrol said in a media release.
That same media release states the driver suspect was removed from the wrecked patrol vehicle and was transported to an area hospital, where he died. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured in the collision.
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