Driver Speeds Through Crime Scene, Narrowly Missing News Crew
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- News crews covering a deadly shooting in Colorado Springs were narrowly missed by an SUV driver who sped through the crime scene that was cordoned off by crime scene tape.
A KRDO reporter and photographer team were in the vehicle's path and barely made it out of the way in time. The photographer was hit by the driver's mirror.
The driver just missed a reporter and photographer with KKTV, the CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs.
The vehicle then sideswiped a police cruiser.
Officers immediately pulled over the driver and took him into custody. He was later identified as Michael Brown, 51.
In addition to an active arrest warrant for unrelated traffic charges, Brown will face charges of driving under restraint, compulsory insurance and duty to remain at the scene of an accident.
Police do not believe alcohol is involved but it is unclear why Brown drove through the crime scene.
Officers were called to a shooting south of Prospect Lake on Monday night that is being investigated as a suspicious death.
The man who had been shot was found lying in the 1300 block of Las Animas Street in Colorado Springs next to a motorcycle. He died early Tuesday morning. The victim has not been identified.
