Two high-speed chases during which a male suspect allegedly tried repeatedly to run over police officers put him in the Utah County jail and a female passenger in the hospital with a gunshot wound.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said the woman apparently was grazed on the head by one of several shots fired by police during the prolonged pursuit late Sunday morning and early afternoon.
The woman, identified only as a relative of the suspect, was conscious and communicative when taken to a hospital for treatment of what Cannon termed a “non-life threatening injury.”
The uninjured suspect, a 40-year-old Springville man, was booked into jail on suspicion of five third-degree felony counts of failure to stop at command of a police officer and numerous misdemeanors, ranging from multiple reckless driving counts to speeding and driving without current insurance and vehicle registration.