Tennessee felon Katlyn Wray, leads cops on 4-hour lengthy sluggish movement chase with speeds of seven mph in stolen automotive
A police chase went at a snail’s tempo early Tuesday morning when an armada of cop vehicles – their sirens blaring and their lights flashing – adopted a fleeing felon in Tennessee at speeds as sluggish as 7 mph, authorities mentioned.
Video captured by Fox17 reveals the surreal scene because the fleeing suspect, Katlyn Wray, 28, putters alongside on apocalyptically empty highways in Nashville whereas a fleet of police vehicles crawls behind her.
When officers lastly caught up with Wray and requested why she didn’t simply pull over, she replied: “I’m already on paper for ten years anyway,” in accordance with reviews.
The dramatic however slow-as-molasses chase began simply after 3 a.m. when Metro Nashville Law enforcement officials discovered Wray asleep behind the wheel of a stolen Nissan Altima, in accordance with reviews.
As 4 officers approached, Wray awoke, threw the automotive in reverse and motored away, in accordance with WTVF.
Officers laid out two units of spike strips to catch her. Wray hit each of them, flattening her back and front tires, however that didn’t cease her, in accordance with reviews.
She continued to drive on the flat tires for practically 4 hours whereas cops calmly pursued her – touring at speeds wherever from 7 mph to a whopping 15 mph, in accordance with WTVF.
Police helicopters hovering overhead joined within the surreal chase.
Division coverage prohibits Metro police from making use of a PIT maneuver, a police tactic used to spin out a fleeing automotive, in accordance with Fox 17. As a substitute, the Tennessee Freeway Patrol was known as in to execute the maneuver.
Video taken by Fox17 reveals the trooper pitting Wray and officers placing her in handcuffs sporting a pair of pink shorts and a scorching pink high.
Wray is charged with two counts of auto theft, reckless endangerment and 4 counts felony evading arrest for Tuesday’s tremendous sluggish chase, in accordance with reviews.
She was on probation for a November 2023 forgery conviction, and has an in depth legal historical past together with convictions for aggravated housebreaking, cocaine possession, legal simulation and a number of theft convictions round Tennessee, in accordance with reviews.
