Officer shot in mouth trying to save suicidal woman
A high-speed pursuit over Molas Pass early on the morning of April 2, ended with the apparent suicide of the driver and Undersheriff Steve Lowrance being injured by a gunshot to the face.
Lowrance was treated and released from Mercy Medical Center, with the bullet reportedly hitting a tooth and piercing a cheek.
Sheriff Bruce Conrad said the initial call came in at about 2:12 a.m. on Tuesday, April 2, that La Plata County and Durango officers were in a high-speed pursuit. Those officers disengaged at the county line.
Undersheriff Lowrance and Deputy Dean Mize joined the pursuit on U.S. 550.
“Our officers continued south, with the intent to lay a spike strip,” Conrad said.
But the subject vehicle appeared sooner than they expected.
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