Suspect Allegedly Stole Truck and then fled in Patrol Car

Posted: 4: 06 p.m. CDT September 6, 2001
Updated: 8:34 p.m. CDT September 6, 2001

MIRABILE, Mo.-- A Missouri manhunt came to an
end after a barrage of Wednesday-night chases on car
and on foot, KMBC 9 News Krista Tatschi reported.

Deputies from live county agencies caught Shawn 
Hansell, 20, in Ray County Thursday afternoon after
a dangerous chase. 

The Caldwell County Sheriffs Department was questioning 
Hansell about a stolen car a week ago when he jumped out 
a window, stole a truck and sent police on a weeklong, 
five-county search.

The chase Wednesday started early in the evening
when a deputy caught Hansell with the stolen truck.
He then shackled Hansell and put him in his patrol vehicle.

"He was in handcuff, a belly chain and leg irons,"
Clinton County Sheriff Dan Jones said.

When the deputy left the vehicle, Hansell somehow got
into the driver's seat and drove off.

The deputy and another deputy from Carroll County fired 
a few shots into the vehicle, but Hansell got away and later 
allegedly ditched the vehicle, according to sheriffs deputies.

"We've never had a patrol car taken out from under us," 
Jones said.

Hansell was also wanted in Ray County for a probation violation
stemming from a previous car theft.

After ditching the vehicle, Hansell allegedly stole another car.

About noon Thursday, Hansell supposedly crashed the stolen
car on a rocky Ray County back road after a 15-minute run from 
county deputies.

Hansell then tried to escape on foot but was quickly caught 
and sent to the Ray County Hospital to treat cuts on his head, 
hands and feet, police said.

Hansell was taken from the hospital to the Carroll County Jail. 
He is being held on $100,000 bond and faces charges of stealing
a truck and damaging property, Tatschi reported.


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