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Cell Phone Video of Timothy Johnson Police Chase

Reported by: Kelly Dudzik
Email: kdudzik@fox16.com
Last Update: 8/16/2008 7:03 am
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Cell phone video shot where police set up a barricade right in front of the Winston Clinic at the corner of 167 and Little Creek Road in Grant County shows Timothy Johnson evading police Wednesday.
 
Johnson avoided a roadblock and instead drove through a field and the clinic's parking lot as a receptionist captured it all on her cell phone.

As Arkansas State Police and Little Rock Police chased Timothy Johnson south on 167 toward Sheridan, Nicole Freeman's cell phone rang.  "I got a phone call from a friend saying that there was a police chase," says Freeman.

She rushed to her office window.  "We heard the gun fire and saw the police officers running across the parking lot," explains Freeman.

And she used that same phone to capture the video.  "I could see him plain as day, so I could tell he was an older man, but..." said Freeman.

“Did you make eye contact with him?" asked FOX16’s Kelly Dudzik.

“No, he wasn't looking.  He was looking forward the entire time.  He wasn't looking anywhere else," says Freeman.

Angie Riggan was the only other person in the clinic. The women hadn't heard about the shooting in Little Rock yet.  "At the time it all happened so fast that I didn't have time to think that I should be scared," said Riggan.

Officers shot out Johnson's engine block.  His truck leaked fluid as he sped across a field.  He then came right past the clinic within feet of Angie, Nicole and an elderly couple waiting in their car for an afternoon appointment. 

Angie rushed outside to get them to pull around behind the building.  "I was more concerned about just getting them out of the way because I could tell the truck was headed straight towards us," added Riggan.

As soon as she got the couple to move, Angie ran back inside to Nicole.  Both women are thankful police prevented Johnson from getting to downtown Sheridan.  "If he would've gotten into town, it was 12:30, it was lunch time, you know, it was kind of packed in town.  I think it would've been a lot worse," said Freeman.
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