Man Killed In Crash During Police Chase

Alexis Scott has details about a police chase that ended in a deadly crash.

We're learning more details tonight on a chase that ended in a deadly crash.

It killed one person and severely hurt another.

Huntsville police tried to stop a vehicle near university and putnam drive.

Montarious rooks refused to stop and took off until crashing on old monrovia road.

Waay-31s alexis scott spent the day piecing together what happened during this chase.

Huntsville police told me when it comes to chases... there's protocol to follow but also flexibility to handle each case differently.

In this situation... officers stopped the chase to keep everyone on the road safe.

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Michael johnson, huntsville police department "it's a decision overall for public safety.

It'a trend you know, police departments and law enforcement is going through policy-wise across the country to try and reduce injuries and hopefully save lives but in this case even though in this case, it was very unfortunate," lieutenant michael johnson with the huntsville police department told me officers originally tried to stop montarious rooks for a simple tag registration issue on what police described as a dark colored hatchback vehicle.

He told me it appeared the driver was going to pull over on university drive... but sped off at about 80 miles an hour.

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Michael johnson, huntsville police department "once it hit sparkman, that sparkman drive overpass on university, he immediately fled, you know accelerated very quickly," johnson told me in that situation an officer's main priority is to keep everyone safe... even the suspect.

Because rooks was going so fast... and sharp turns in the area the officer decided to end the chase.

A few minutes later... rooks crashed his hatchback style car into another vehicle on old monrovia road near the amc movie theatre the crash killed rooks.

A passenger in the car was badly hurt.

The message from police is clear... lt.

Michael johnson, huntsville police department "it's not worth jeopardizing your life running from a traffic infraction," not shot yet huntsville police are still investigating but don't think rooks or his passenger wore seatbelts.

The driver that was hit is expected to be okay and walked away with minor injuries.

Reporting in huntsville,alexis scott waay-31 news