Louisville woman worries police chase endangered innocent bystanders

GOOD EVENING TO YOU, JENNIFER BAILEYS. AND I’M RICK VAN HOOSE THAT 42 MINUTE POLICE CHASE ACROSS THE METRO AS SCHOOL WAS LETTING OUT FORCE JCP TO HALT ALL BUSSES FOR SAFETY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. AND POLICE SAY THE MAN LEADING THEM ON THAT CHASE WAS COREY. WHERE WOKE WISE MARK VANDERHOFF SPOKE TO ONE WITNESS WHO SAYS SHE’S AMAZED NOBODY WAS HURT. AT ONE POINT, THE POLICE CHASE CAME HERE DOWN WEST JEFFERSON STREET. IT WAS GOING PAST DAY. TANYA MORGAN’S HOUSE, JUST AS SHE WAS LEAVING FOR THE GROCERY. I HEARD THE LOUDEST BOOM AND IT CAUGHT MY ATTENTION BECAUSE THAT SOUND WAS VERY FAMILIAR. THEY TONYA MORGAN WAS ON HER PORCH WHEN SHE SAW THE POLICE CHASE COME DOWN JEFFERSON STREET AFTER THE SUSPECT SMASHED INTO A CAR PARKED AT 28TH. AND JEFFERSON. HE WAS SWINGING HIS WAGON. LOOK LIKE HE WAS GOING TO HIT MY CAR. SO I’M I’M I’M LOSING MY BREATH. COREY, WHERE IS NOW? BEHIND BARS ON A $25,000 BOND. THE COURT DOES FIND THAT BASED ON THE CHARGE HERE AND HIS PRIOR HISTORY THAT MR.. WHERE IS A DANGER. POLICE SAY WHERE ROBBED TWO BANKS ON SEPTEMBER 16TH. THE WEST BANK OWNED BANK ON SOUTH HIRSCHHORN PARKWAY AND THE FIRST FINANCIAL BANK ON TAYLOR’S MILL ROAD JUST AFTER 1230 THURSDAY. THEY SAY HE HIT AGAIN, THIS TIME THE FIRST FINANCIAL BANK ON BARDSTOWN ROAD. POLICE SAY THEY FOUND WHERE AT THIS HOME ON WINTER GARDEN COURT NEAR FERN CREEK AND THE 42 MINUTE CHASE ENSUED. ONE WITNESS TELLS WLKY SHE SAW THE CHASE ON THE WATER AND EXPRESSED WAY BETWEEN WESTPORT AND BROWNSBURG ROADS. AT ANOTHER POINT, POLICE SAY, WHERE TRIED TO HIDE BY PARKING BEHIND THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX ON WEST JEFFERSON STREET. HE TOOK OFF AGAIN, HITTING A POLICE CAR. EVENTUALLY, HE WAS CAUGHT AFTER JUMPING OUT OF HIS CAR AT THIS INTERSECTION ON EASTERN PARKWAY, NOT FAR FROM U OF L. THE CHASE WAS A BITTER REMINDER FOR MORGAN. I WAS FREAKING OUT. I WAS HYPERVENTILATING BECAUSE I I’M A VICTIM. I’M A VICTIM OF A HIGH SPEED LMPD CHASE. MORGAN SAYS SHE WAS DRIVING WITH HER DAUGHTER WHEN A DIFFERENT SUSPECT FROM ANOTHER CRIME WAS FLEEING POLICE IN JANUARY. YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE OTHER PEOPLE LIVES THAT ARE AT

DaTanya Morgan was walking to her car Thursday afternoon when she decided to pause and oil her dry feet.Suddenly, she heard a loud crash and looked up to see a silver sedan speeding past her house, followed by Louisville Metro Police Department cruisers.Bank robbery suspect Corey Ware had just crashed into a car at the corner of 28th and Jefferson streets, she said, and nearly crashed into her parked car before forcing another driver to swerve to avoid a collision."I was freaking out," she said. "I was hyperventilating because I'm a victim of a high-speed LMPD chase."Ware led police on a 42-minute chase throughout the city, according to his arrest citation.The pursuit began in Fern Creek and took him down the Watterson Expressway in east Louisville and through various streets of west Louisville before ending on Eastern Parkway near the University of Louisville.He faces two counts of robbery in the second degree and one count of robbery in the first degree, along with other charges stemming from the police chase.Police say he robbed a WesBanco on South Hurstbourne Parkway and a First Financial Bank on Taylorsville Road on Sept. 16.On Thursday, he struck again, this time at the First Financial Bank on Bardstown Road in Fern Creek.According to his arrest citation, Ware "indicated he was armed and demanded money, stating 'You're getting robbed, brother!'"The pursuit occurred when police confronted him at a home on Winter Garden Court, not far from the banks police say he robbed. Over the course of the chase, Ware crashed into one police cruiser and the car parked at 28th and Jefferson streets.Morgan believes it was a miracle nobody was hurt.She also thinks LMPD should have ended its pursuit, which forced JCPS to delay school buses from taking students home just as school was letting out."You have to think about the other people's lives that are at stake," she said. "I understand you want to get the bad guy, but is it worth you killing three or four innocent civilians?"LMPD's standard operating procedures allow police pursuits in the cases of violent felonies, including what's called "robbery 1."A spokesperson for LMPD also noted police found a gun in Ware's car and he was charged with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. Ware was on probation for drug charges.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

DaTanya Morgan was walking to her car Thursday afternoon when she decided to pause and oil her dry feet.

Suddenly, she heard a loud crash and looked up to see a silver sedan speeding past her house, followed by Louisville Metro Police Department cruisers.

Bank robbery suspect Corey Ware had just crashed into a car at the corner of 28th and Jefferson streets, she said, and nearly crashed into her parked car before forcing another driver to swerve to avoid a collision.

"I was freaking out," she said. "I was hyperventilating because I'm a victim of a high-speed LMPD chase."

Ware led police on a 42-minute chase throughout the city, according to his arrest citation.

The pursuit began in Fern Creek and took him down the Watterson Expressway in east Louisville and through various streets of west Louisville before ending on Eastern Parkway near the University of Louisville.

He faces two counts of robbery in the second degree and one count of robbery in the first degree, along with other charges stemming from the police chase.

Police say he robbed a WesBanco on South Hurstbourne Parkway and a First Financial Bank on Taylorsville Road on Sept. 16.

On Thursday, he struck again, this time at the First Financial Bank on Bardstown Road in Fern Creek.

According to his arrest citation, Ware "indicated he was armed and demanded money, stating 'You're getting robbed, brother!'"

The pursuit occurred when police confronted him at a home on Winter Garden Court, not far from the banks police say he robbed. Over the course of the chase, Ware crashed into one police cruiser and the car parked at 28th and Jefferson streets.

Morgan believes it was a miracle nobody was hurt.

She also thinks LMPD should have ended its pursuit, which forced JCPS to delay school buses from taking students home just as school was letting out.

"You have to think about the other people's lives that are at stake," she said. "I understand you want to get the bad guy, but is it worth you killing three or four innocent civilians?"

LMPD's standard operating procedures allow police pursuits in the cases of violent felonies, including what's called "robbery 1."

A spokesperson for LMPD also noted police found a gun in Ware's car and he was charged with possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. Ware was on probation for drug charges.

Louisville woman worries police chase endangered innocent bystanders

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