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Driver running from GSP jumps wall, hits trooper, then tackled by bystander on I-20, GSP says

A Decatur man is now behind bars but not before officials said he led Georgia troopers on a bizarre chase.

While patrolling Sunday on I-20 eastbound near Moreland Avenue, a Georgia State Patrol trooper noticed a black Chevrolet Camaro speeding.

As troopers begin to conduct a traffic stop, they noticed the Camaro was the same car that sped away from troopers Friday night.

Officials said as more troopers arrived they attempted to pull in front of the Camaro.

The driver, identified as 25-year-old Dyshawn West, immediately put the car in reverse and hit a trooper, according to investigators. As he attempted to go around another trooper, he reportedly hit the front of the trooper’s patrol car.

According to GSP, the troopers were able to pin the car in from going into eastbound traffic. As troopers were giving West commands, they said he did not comply.

He then allegedly put the car in reverse, broke free from the pin, and then sped out of the pin, traveling on I-20 eastbound, and hitting another car.

West then got out of the car and ran across the interstate. Troopers reportedly discharged their taser, hitting West.

While they tried to place West into handcuffs, authorities said West jumped off the retention wall into the emergency lane on I-20 westbound with one handcuff still attached. Before troopers could catch up to West, a bystander reportedly tackled him and placed him in handcuffs.

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JSO: Police shoot, wound man who fired at officer during Arlington apartment standoff

Teresa Stepzinski, Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville police critically wounded a man they said fired a shot toward an officer while fleeing out a window during a standoff at an Arlington apartment complex early Sunday.

The incident began about 4:30 a.m. at The Square at 59 Caroline Apartments with a call from the mother of the man shot, 23-year-old Darius Robinson, said Alan Parker, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office chief of investigations.

Sheriff T. K. Waters, also at the scene, said patrol officers had gone to the complex in response to a report of “an armed disturbance inside of an apartment.”

Robinson had called his mother who then called the Sheriff’s Office and relayed the information to police.

“Information that came in was that Darius Robinson was inside the residence,” Parker said. “He was armed with a handgun and had stated that there were other known individuals who had come into the apartment who were all armed and were threatening to shoot him. But they were waiting on other friends apparently before they engaged.”

Officers set up at the front and rear of the home. Robinson’s mother also contacted her brother — who is Robinson’s uncle — and gave him the same information, Parker said

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