Video shows Grove City chase that ended in fatal crash

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Grove City, OH - New video from Grove City police shows a chase Saturday that ended in a deadly crash.

Police said they were originally investigating an alleged theft involving two suspects.

Grove City Police Lt. Jason Stern said the situation was tragic, but preventable.

“Listen to the police, follow the police’s instructions. Just stop,” Stern said. “As it happened, we were so far away from them, we didn’t even have a chance to try and do a pursuit interception technique or anything to stop them. Just couldn’t catch up because it was so fast. But those decisions cost two people’s lives.”

He said officials are still reviewing the incident to make sure proper protocols were followed, as they do with all chases.

Stern said the two suspects, identified as 47-year-olds Christopher Reed and Kelly Wise, allegedly stole from Dick’s Sporting Goods on Stringtown Road, but were later spotted near Walmart off Buckeye Parkway.

In the video, officers spot one of the suspects getting into a silver car and pulls up next to the car to stop them from leaving. The suspects speed off, clipping the police cruiser and zooming past several pedestrians. The officer follows the suspects but loses them.

Stern said an off-duty officer spotted the suspects on White Road and called back their location. The officer said he was passing cars and driving on the opposite side of the road.

The officers found the car on Hoover Road, where the car can be seen driving on the opposite side of the road at an estimated 70 mph. The officers could not catch up to the car.

“That and the real, real alarming part of this was that continued driving on the wrong side of the road, in the wrong traffic lanes, that is so unbelievably dangerous,” he said. “We are very grateful that no, no innocent people were injured or struck at any point. I mean, it could have started at Walmart. They were right there, feet away from these pedestrians walking in front of Walmart.”

Another officer then meets the car on Interstate 71. He radios that he is initiating a pursuit because of the reckless driving.

That officer keeps airing speeds over the radio reaching as high as 120 mph. The suspect car cut across four lanes, almost hitting a motorcycle.

The car gets off on Greenlawn Avenue, driving toward the cemetery, and officers follow.

In the video, the sun blocks the actual crash, but the aftermath is visible. The officers quickly switched from enforcement to rendering aid when they see the two people are unresponsive. They perform CPR for several minutes. Stern said he wishes this could’ve ended differently.