A high-speed chase through San Marcos, Texas ended tragically when a juvenile suspect died after plummeting 70 feet into a quarry in Comal County, officials reported. The incident began early Tuesday morning after San Marcos police officers identified a Hyundai suspected to have been stolen, with two juvenile suspects inside, KVUE reports.
The pursuit escalated down Interstate 35, as the suspects attempted to evade law enforcement divers who were then joined in the pursuit by New Braunfels police, and further chaos ensued the vehicle steered off the interstate and onto a treacherous gravel road where eventually the stolen car crashed into a boulder at a rock quarry. In a frantic attempt to escape, both suspects abandoned the vehicle with the passenger meeting a grim fate falling into the quarry while the driver was captured, as detailed by CBS Austin.
The identity of the deceased has not been released pending notification of kin, and the extent of the charges against the driver who survived is still under consideration according to area authorities. Alongside the aftermath of the chase, authorities uncovered three stolen firearms and two pieces of stolen body armor, suggesting the suspects might have been involved in additional criminal activities before their fatal run-in with the law.
Leading the investigation into the harrowing incident, both the Texas Rangers and the San Marcos Police Department are scrutinizing the circumstances that led up to the tragic conclusion while the City of San Marcos spokesperson shared with CBS Austin that indications point to the suspects having broken into at least one vehicle while in San Marcos, criminal acts that preceded the twist of events that would end so disastrously at the quarry.
