MUNCIE, Ind. — Authorities aren't saying yet whether a man who died after crashing while he fled from Muncie police officers was wounded by gunfire from the officers.
The Marion County coroner's office said 30-year-old Jeffrey Eldridge died at an Indianapolis hospital on Sunday, two days after his car slammed into a semitrailer. Muncie police said officers chased him after he tried to withdraw money using a bank card stolen in purse-snatchings at Walmart and Target stores.
The Star Press reports that an officer who was stuck by Eldridge's car was released Saturday from a Muncie hospital.
Delaware County Prosecutor Jeffrey Arnold said the chase remained under investigation and the coroner's office didn't immediately release a cause of death for Eldridge, who had lived in Muncie and Hartford City in recent years.
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