Dallas Police Pursue Comes to Dramatic End
Pursue Comes to Dramatic End
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A high-speed police pursue came to a dramatic end Wednesday in North Dallas when the driver rear-ended a family’s minivan and was promptly tackled, dragged into the street and hammered by the mom at the wheel and her beau.
Dallas police said that suspect Artrai Alexander, 40, had carjacked a Dodge Challenger at a convenience store in the three thousand block of Grand Avenue, near Fair Park. The victim called nine hundred eleven and described the car, touching off the wild pursue across the city.
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Police chased the car along residential streets, parking lots and Interstate six hundred thirty five until the driver attempted to split inbetween two cars at a stoplight but instead rammed into them at Walnut Hill Lane and Abrams Road.
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Jessica Liesmann, who was driving the minivan the suspect hit, and her beau Charles Cook got out of their van, quickly approached the suspect’s vehicle and fought him to the ground before police officers arrived and arrested him.
"I witnessed him come behind me and hit me. I turned around and asked my son, ‘Are you okay?’ and he was like ‘Yeah’ – so I hopped out the car and was like, ‘What the hell is wrong with you? You’re in a school zone. What are you thinking?’ He didn’t say anything," Liesmann said.
“I just hope he knows better and that the entire time he’s in jail thinking about what he did, from the beginning to the end," Liesmann said. "I don’t know why he did it or what happened, but I hope it replays over and over and over and he feels indeed stupid for what he did.”
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Liesmann’s son T.J., 13, was also in the van and was taken by ambulance from the scene as a precaution. He was released from the hospital just before six p.m.
"My mom, she did put him in his place, and I’m glad that he’s in jail ’cause, to be fair, when I was in the car, I thought I died," T.J. said.
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"I was just angry. I just lost my 4-year-old child on the 2nd day of school, and to think of something else happening to one of my kids," said Liesmann, "I just can’t imagine. I’m just grateful, very first of all, that he’s OK, and 2nd of all, that that man is in jail."
A handgun was recovered from the stolen Challenger, police said.
"If he had a gun, I just thank God that he didn’t pull it out, ’cause I could’ve lightly been shot and she could’ve lightly been shot," Liesmann’s bf Cook said.
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Dallas police said Alexander will be charged with aggravated robbery and evading arrest.
Appreciative that the citizens who held the #pursue suspect weren’t injured by him. Would never advise you do that. #Adrenaline and #Anger
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NBC Five’s Amanda Guerra and Ray Villeda contributed to this report.
