- A suspect fleeing in a stolen police cruiser crashed into multiple parked vehicles Monday night, leaving two children dead and at least 10 people injured.
- Police said that the suspect was fleeing the scene of a stabbing in Dayton, Ohio, later crashed into a tree, stole a police cruiser from the responding officers, and then crashed into at least three cars in a parking lot outside of a public library.
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Two children are dead and at least 10 people injured Monday night in Dayton, Ohio, after a suspect who fled the scene of a stabbing in a stolen police cruiser crashed into multiple parked vehicles outside of a library.
CBS affiliate WHIO-TV reported that at least seven children are among the injured, and at least three people sustained life-threatening injuries in the crash. The suspect was also taken to the hospital for treatment but remains in custody.
Police told WDTN that the incident first began shortly after 7 p.m. local time after receiving reports of a stabbing in Dayton. The suspect fled the scene in a vehicle, and authorities then responded to calls of an accident in Riverside, Ohio, after the suspect crashed into a tree, at which point the suspect stole a Riverside police cruiser and initiated a high-speed chase.
Police pursued the suspect until he crashed into at least three parked vehicles outside of a public library in Dayton. WHIO-TV reported that seven children were inside a van that was involved in the crash, according to Denorris Hopgood, a witness at the scene who attempted to help the injured.
"I jumped out and did my best to get as many children out of the van as I could," he told WHIO-TV. The news outlet reported that "one child severely injured, another pinned between a door and a seat," per Hopgood's description.
Riverside police told WDTN that two officers involved in the incident were also being treated for injuries.
This incident comes in the same month as a tragic mass shooting that left 9 dead and more than two dozen wounded in a popular night life area in Dayton.
This story is developing. We will update as more details become available.
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