We begin tonight at 11 with breaking news.
Within just the last five minut,
we confirmed an Indiana State
Trooper has died after he was
hit by a car during a chase.
So this all unfolded just
before 9 on the West side.
We do have live team coverage tonight.
Rachel Krause is at the scene
Logan Gay outside Eskenazi
Hospital where police actually
just finished giving us an upda.
We'll get to Logan and here's
actually the update right now.
Let's
TuneIn. We've hired a lot of people and
he was one of those guys that stood out.
And you all know who those people are.
And and that's what I
always remember about him.
He was not cliche, but he was a
shining star within the state police.
You you mentioned some of the or
troopers on scene who had to witness this.
I imagine you provide counseling for them
too, to have to help them get through this.
We will. And they're not well, but we will.
Do you know the original reason
why you guys just a stolen vehie
or why this car was being chase?
Why you guys? I'm sorry.
I don't right now. I don't.
I don't have an answer
for that right now. All that is
will be forthcoming for sure,
will be as transparent
as you possibly can. I'm
sorry. Thank you. So I'm sure we'll talk
again. Thank you.
I just want to do a quick
thing just to do nothing.
I will be issuing questions.
This evening yet it will have
preliminary factual information.
Obviously it's not going
to be deep in the weeds,
but it will give just a right
now preliminary overview of what
occurred and what and why we are
where we're at at this point.
So do appreciate it.
This will be the only stand up
that we'll be doing tonight.
After that the press release and then
as information develops we'll
continue to update and make sure that
everybody is updated accordingl.
Thank you all again for your
infinite patience. We appreciat.
We appreciate you being here and again,
please keep. The family, friend,
coworkers of Trooper Aaron
Smith in the thousand first.
Thank you very much. All
right. So what you guys heard was just
a very, very emotional statement from
the Indiana State Police Superintendent.
And he did notify us that the state trooper,
Aaron Smith, has died.
He's been on the force for about 5 years.
He says it happened around 8:45.
When the trooper was trying to t
out stop sticks to stop a car tt
was fleeing from a traffic stop,
that car was suspected of being stolen and
when the suspects out from what we know.
Drove into the trooper.
That trooper was taken here to Eskenazi
Health at first in critical condition,
but what we know now is that he
has passed away of the suspects
in that car have also been taken
here and are expected to surviv.
But again, that trooper,
Aaron Smith has passed away.
He's what he was on the 4th for five years.
As more details come out,
they said that they will get
that to us as soon as possible.
But it is a very sad time.
So we have Rachel,
who has more information about
what happened on Interstate 70.
Rachel, what do we know?
Well, Logan, I'm here at the sce
of the crash that led to the fal
accident for that Indiana State Police
trooper and police here have had this
area here of Ronald Reagan Parky
and Ameriplex blocked off for hs
as accident reconstruction crewd
investigators work to process the scene
of the crash that led to the deh
of an Indiana State Police troo.
Senior Trooper Nick Klinghammerh
the Indiana State Police tells us this
started with a chase on the Southwest side.
That chase ended here.
And a trooper attempted to
deploy stop sticks.
Police say the suspect driving
the vehicle struck the trooper,
critically injuring him and
crashing the car he was in.
Both were taken to Eskenazi Hospital.
State police,
again confirming that trooper later died.
Crews continue to keep this area of Ronald
Reagan blocked off as they conte
to process the scene of this cr.
And police tell us they expect to have
this area blocked off for hours here.
And over the past 30 minutes or,
we've seen different investigats
and police units out here.
They've been combing this
area with flashlights.
They have part of this blocked
off with crime scene tape.
We've seen multiple units out
here working to process scene.
And again, they expect to have s
area of Ronald Reagan Parkway ad
Ameriplex blocked off for hourss
they work to process the scene.
Felicia.
All right. Rachel Krauss,
thank you so much.
Reporting live from the scene we
we have learned that an Indiana
State Trooper has been killed.
Of course, we'll be following this closely.
We're going to be checking backn
with our live crews throughout the show,
bring you any updates,
any breaking development,
and we can get those to you as
well on Sunrise starting at 4.