Suspect kills himself after shooting at cops during high-speed chase in Mansfield: police

A man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he led police on a high-speed chase during which he fired multiple shots at officers, according to Mansfield police. No officers were injured.

The chase ended near the intersection of East Broad Street and Texas 360 in Mansfield shortly after 1 p.m. Monday.

The suspect crashed into another vehicle and then shot himself as officers approached him on foot, Mansfield police said.

Mansfield Assistant Police Chief Travis Waybourn said at least one officer returned fire during the pursuit but that no officers fired shots at the scene of the crash.

The chase began around 12:30 p.m. after the driver, whose identity hasn’t been released, showed his gun to officers and fled when they attempted to pull him over for a traffic stop, Waybourn said.

Mansfield police had received several calls about a wrong-way, possibly intoxicated driver in the 2200 block of FM 917. The driver was the only person in the car. Police pursued him through parts of Johnson and Tarrant counties before the driver crashed into an uninvolved vehicle, Waybourn said.

Waybourn said he didn’t believe anybody in the vehicle the suspect rear-ended was injured, but couldn’t say for certain. The chase ended when the crash disabled the suspect’s vehicle on the Broad Street overpass at 360.

Two officers also crashed at the end of the pursuit but were uninjured.

Mansfield police are investigating the death of the driver, but Texas Rangers will investigate the shots fired by the Mansfield officer during the pursuit. The Internal Affairs Unit also will conduct an administrative investigation.

Waybourn stressed that the officer only fired after they’d been fired upon.

A Fort Worth police helicopter and Texas state troopers also participated in the pursuit, according to scanner reports.

The Mansfield Police Department said in a Facebook post that it was “handling a Critical Incident on the overpass at the intersection of the 3400 block of E Broad St and N SH 360.,” and officers had completely blocked the overpass.

All traffic was being diverted to the frontage roads, and drivers were told to seek seek alternate routes through the city.

The chase wove through several highways and roads including Interstate 35W, and at one point went into Burleson before going back into Mansfield.

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