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(Undated) -- A southwest Iowa sheriff is sharing details of an assault, kidnapping, and wrong-way chase from Nebraska into Iowa, Sunday morning that ended in a deadly crash in Missouri...
The Fremont County Sheriff's Office says after 6 a.m. Sunday, November 17th, a call came in from the hospital in Hamburg, Iowa from a woman who reported that she had been assaulted and she and her 1 year old child had been kidnapped, by a 29-year-old Bellevue, Nebraska man she knew, who drove to Iowa, and dropped her off at the hospital. The woman told officers the man was suicidal and homicidal and he left in a Kia Sorento. Deputies and Iowa State Troopers found the SUV speeding southbound in the northbound lanes of I-29, and a high speed chase began.
The Fremont County Sheriff's Office says the driver of the SUV attempted to strike both Fremont County deputies. One deputy, pursued the suspect vehicle in the northbound lanes starting at mile marker 5. Other law enforcement continued the pursuit in the southbound lanes.
The SUV hit a 2013 Ford Focus on I-29 at mile marker 123 in Missouri, as the Ford was passing a semi. The semi driver swerved to avoid the crash and hit a Fremont County Sheriff's SUV.
The Kia came to a stop on the northbound Nishnabotna River Bridge, and became fully engulfed in flames.
A Fremont County deputy rescued the 1-year-old child from the burning vehicle. The child was airlifted to a hospital in Omaha with non-life-threatening injuries.
The Fremont County deputy struck by the semi was treated and released from a local hospital.
Those who died include the man in the SUV, and the driver and a passenger in the Ford Focus, both 18-year-old Missouri residents.