The shooting followed a pursuit by law enforcement in Round Rock over a report of a stolen vehicle. The suspect has been identified as a Pflugerville woman.
was shot and killed following a pursuit by law enforcement over a report of a stolen vehicle.police reported that officers had attempted to stop a stolen gray Nissan Altima, but lost sight of it near the 7800 block of I-35. A trooper later found it near Westinghouse and I-35 and tried to pull it over, but the woman inside it, later identified as Nuckols, kept driving.
Nuckols evaded the trooper, but ultimately lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a black passenger car on Old Settlers Boulevard, just west of the I-35 access road, says DPS. Christopher Santos-Velasquez told FOX 7 Austin on Friday he was the driver of the black car.Officials say that the incident began as a pursuit involving Texas DPS and a vehicle that was reported stolen.
"I just see a vehicle just coming straight towards me, and I didn't know how to react. I was like, 'what?' By the time I could react, the impact had already happened. That's when I was just like, 'whoa." Airbags deployed. My car was completely shut off, and it wasn't working or running, nothing. I was just in shock. I was like, 'yo, this really just happened,'" he said.
The Altima stopped in the grassy area off the south side of Old Settlers Boulevard and Nuckols reportedly got out of it with a firearm. The trooper then discharged his weapon according to DPS.All the news you need to know, every day
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