Police release footage of deadly Seat Pleasant chase, killing woman, injuring child
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Prince George, MD - Police have released the body worn camera and dashboard camera footage of a deadly police chase that killed a woman and hospitalized a child and another adult in March.
On March 21, an officer from the Seat Pleasant Police Department tried to pull over a Genesis sedan around 7:30 p.m. on the 6300 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Highway. The driver stopped at first, but as shown in the first clip of the dashboard camera video, when the officer walked back to his police cruiser for a minute, the car sped off. Authorities issued a lookout alert for other surrounding law enforcement to keep an eye out for it.
Later, officers from Prince George’s County Police saw the vehicle at a gas station in the 6700 block of the same highway. When they attempted another traffic stop, the driver took off again.
The PGPD officers chased the car for a short distance. The fleeing driver quickly crashed into a Nissan SUV that wasn’t involved in the chase. The SUV was driven by a woman who was later identified as 34-year-old Patricia Riddick, who had a child passenger with her. In the body-worn camera video, police can be seen trying to break into the car to rescue Riddick and the child, who was crying in the back seat. Riddick was taken to a nearby hospital, where she later died. The child was also hurt with non-life-threatening injuries.
The collision happened at the intersection of Martin Luther King, Jr. Highway and Belle Haven Drive. The Genesis driver was hospitalized in critical condition. No officers were injured during the incident.