REPORT ON WEDNESDAY MORNING CHASE TELLS STORY WHICH COULD HAVE EASILY ENDED TRAGICALLY

HUNTER

            THE WEDNESDAY MORNING HIGH SPEED CHASE ACROSS CHRISTIAN COUNTY COULD HAVE ENDED DIFFERENTLY IN SO MANY WAYS, AND FEW OF THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD.

            AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, 27-YEAR OLD JONATHAN HUNTER OF ASHLAND CITY, TENNESSEE LED SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE ON A HALF-HOUR LONG PURSUIT THAT INCLUDED A WRECK WITH INJURY AND A PURSUIT GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION ON I-24.

            THE REPORT FROM THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE MAN INJURED IN A WRECK AT I-24 AND KENTUCKY 115 WAS 45-YEAR OLD PAUL RADFORD OF CLARKSVILLE, WHO WAS NORTHBOUND ON THE ROADWAY WHEN HUNTER DROVE INTO HIS PATH.

            RADFORD WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR WHAT APPEARED TO BE MINOR INJURIES. AFTER THE ACCIDENT, HUNTER ALLEGEDLY TURNED BACK AROUND AND DROVE TOWARD POLICE AND RADFORD AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED AS IF HE WOULD RUN THEM OVER.

            THAT’S WHEN DEPUTY KAYCE GREEN POINTED HIS HANDGUN AT HUNTER’S WINDSHIELD AND ACTIVATED THE LASER.

            HUNTER DROVE SEVERAL MILES IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AT SPEEDS OF OVER 110 MILES PER HOUR BEFORE GETTING OFF AT EXIT 4 AND BEING ARRESTED BY MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE BETWEEN CLARKSVILLE AND GUTHRIE.

            TWO PASSENGERS “HUNKERED DOWN” IN HUNTER’S VEHICLE DURING THE CHASE, THOUGH THEY WERE NOT CHARGED WITH ANY CRIMES. HUNTER IS CHARGED WITH NUMEROUS CRIMES, INCLUDING FLEEING FROM POLICE AND SEVERAL COUNTS OF WANTON ENDANGERMENT.

            THE INCIDENT BEGAN WHEN SOMEONE CALLED THE ECC REPORTING HUNTER HAD STOLEN AN ATV IN TRIGG COUNTY, WHICH WAS DAMAGED IN THE WRECK ON 115.

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