Police Pursuit Involving a Track Loader Ends in Shooting
MOBILE Ala.
By Rick McCann
January 31, 2025
A person who took a track loader without permission led several law enforcement agencies through West Mobile at times playing chicken and charging at police during a pursuit.
On Thursday, January 30, 2025, shortly after 10:00 a.m., officers observed a skid-steer, which was previously reported stolen, and which had also been used in an attempt to strike a citizen, near the intersection of Noble Drive and Noble Lane in Tillmans Corner.
The driver fled and made his way to westbound Interstate 10 near Highway 90. Officers again attempted a traffic stop, but the driver of the equipment did not stop for officers and continued to flee. At one point, the driver of the skid steer traveled eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 10, before ultimately turning back around and exiting the interstate at Exit 15B back towards Highway 90.
More police cars joined the pursuit eventually including the Mobile Police and Mobile County Sheriff’s Deputies and ALEA troopers.
Law enforcement said that the driver took them off road several times during the course of the pursuit even charging towards them at times.
During the pursuit, a Mobile Police Department unit was struck by the skid-steer, intentionally, causing major damage to the vehicle.
Police vehicles surrounded the track loader and ordered the driver to stop.
After the lengthy pursuit, and multiple attempts by the driver to strike MPD patrol vehicles and personnel, the pursuit ended after officers engaged the driver with gunfire. The driver was injured and transported to a local hospital for treatment.
This remains an active investigation.
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