All right, he's about 70 miles an hour in the hammer lane going into Holloway. In Columbus, Ohio, deputies with the Franklin County Sheriff's Office worked in coordination with Columbus Police Department officers and their helicopter to track 43-year-old Andrew Teague. [music] >> Doing a U-turn now. Oh, about cars to five. Teague was on parole and had a warrant out for his arrest in reference to an incident a month prior where he threatened [music] to kill his brother's family, including the children, and fired multiple rounds into his house. For the next month, Teague eluded investigators, even successfully fleeing from a traffic stop to avoid arrest. He's got me screwed here. I'm going to turn tight. S17, if we're not having any luck catching up to him, let's back off. 10 days later, on March 5th, 2021, Teague threatened to [music] kill his girlfriend and her 16-year-old son. A ping from Teague's cell phone led detectives [music] to a previously unknown female associate. As investigators arrived to the associate's apartment, they observed [music] Teague driving off in an unfamiliar vehicle. Franklin County's helicopter moved in for the pursuit [music] and tailed him for almost an hour, but they still had no idea the desperate measures Teague would use to avoid capture. Copy, he's uh in the hammer lane now. He's picking up speed. Probably about 80 right now. Approaching the Walk Bridge. Ma'am, was Andrew staying here? >> Yeah, he was over here probably. Did he call you? Cuz he's in a vehicle pursuit now. We saw him walk out. I was >> [sighs and gasps] >> really trying to like figure out how we could do this without without all this. I just wanted to like I wanted to call him and tell him like dude, just come and talk to me. Yeah, he's a small silver Kia car. He just switched back to the right lane under the Walk Bridge. Um what's in the He told me to hide it. What is it? >> know what it was. Can you just put it down, please? Chopper, it's impossible for you to go higher to where he is not aware that you're up there, so. Yeah, we can go up a few hundred more. We got 500. Let's take it up We'll go 2,000 ft. Uh and uh we'll keep her out of them. I I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I wanted to like talk to him and do it like quietly and safely. Do you have his number? Is that what I I got his number. That's how we found him here. Oh. We've been tracking him. Right when he turned his phone on, we knew he was here. Oh. He just stays with me on the weekend. >> Yeah, I totally get it. I I mean I totally You're And you're not doing anything wrong. You're doing absolutely nothing wrong. It's just He's got this thing in his head where he cannot conform to I'm aware of it. >> this normalcy. I Because this normalcy to him is now ab- abnormal. I I'm a mobile I used to be a mobile crisis worker. Okay, cool. Just to be advised, there's a uh accident blocking the left two lanes downtown. So, he's going to have to utilize left or right burn if he's going to continue once you get into that congestion. Do you know how much gas is in the car? I don't even know what car he has. It's a gre- little gray That's mine. 2080 is the last four of that? No? No, I have a >> It's a little It's a Kia? Kia Rio. I think he just filled the tank. Chopper, if we can get some cars set up just north of 670 71 south and we can funnel them into that ramp and spike them. Uh you guys can organize that. >> Does he call you? I mean, did he call you when he said He just took a Well, he I think I got a text so it might be him. >> Anything else in the apartment that's not supposed to be there? You're welcome. No. I don't think so, though. Exiting Weber Exiting Weber. He saw the traffic. Exiting Weber Avenue from 71 south. What is And like you met him from drug counseling? We were homies back in the day. He He's not a bad guy. He's a [ __ ] Well, but but when you get through when you get through the layers, he's not a bad guy. >> No. He's out in the middle of the intersection, going to go eastbound Weber. 71 northbound from Weber. 71 northbound from Weber. Coming down the ramp. Okay, so there was a felonious assault on February 2nd, yeah, on his brother. And then he called the girlfriend this morning was like, "Someone [ __ ] kill you." Um I just got back up to the apartment and and the female walked out. She has a gun in a blue bag and she said he told me to get this out of the house. Uh he's going to exit North Broadway. Exit North Broadway. 71 north exiting. And uh he stopped on the ramp, backing down the ramp. He's trying to back down the ramp off of the freeway. Slow me down. Bring me around. Right pedal. He's backing down the ramp. Backing into traffic down the ramp. Damn, this is crazy. He He gave her a gun, though? Yeah, he left the gun in the apartment and while he was involved in the chase, he said, "Get that [ __ ] out of there." >> Keep it up. Keep it up. 2K. 2K. 71 northbound. And uh right lane. Going to exit North Broadway. Okay, he stopped on the freeway. He stopped on the freeway now. Looks like he's trying to do a U-turn, maybe. Yep, he's going to do a U-turn. Going to go into oncoming traffic. Slow me down. Bring me down. Oof. Of course. Okay, he just backed into try to come in towards some officers. He's going wrong way up the ramp to North Broadway. Back up the wrong way, North Broadway. Eastbound North Broadway, wrong way into oncoming traffic. Eastbound now North Broadway to the right on 31. LT, he is going to kill somebody. There's there's no doubt in our mind. If we don't get him safely somehow, he's going to hurt somebody. Coming up to Maize. North Broadway and Maize Eastbound, 70 mph approximately. He He tried to hit me on the freeway. I said we were not to have cruisers involved in the pursuit right now. Our car's engaging him. Can you see I'm not taking my eyes off of him? Any cars behind him? Uh they're backing off now. Cruisers back to the ramp. When he comes back, we'll try to Where is he at now? But he almost made it back here. So he Yeah, he almost he got like on 23, so He may not have been coming back here. He tried to, but then he flipped on 23, went back on 270. Did he flip my car? No. Everything is fine so far. I mean, he's driving a little erratic, but Coming up to the right now. And that's where is the victim live? We're past it. All right, he passed it 70 He's still Cleveland Southbound past You make next one if you can. We need 25th is coming up, a bigger intersection. I will say this. He says he won't He's and I don't I've never seen a gun on him. But he wants to go out blazing. Like that's what he said to me. He feels very much trapped. So whoever's going out after him, tell them to be very careful. Chopper, normal speeds. No marked cruisers that we are seeing engaged at all around this person. You grew up with him? We knew each other when we were younger. Way back in the day? Mhm. And we were both the bad kids. >> [laughter] >> Seems like he turned it around though. Mhm. Yeah. Well, if he comes towards Wayne, he comes in Go. Go. Go. If he just reverses the plan, Shawn will come up with a He's at 9 and and uh 12 will have it from the rear. He's passing over the tracks going uh He's going over the river tracks. He's going to He's going to know where my car is. It's a four-cylinder. [laughter] Poor baby. >> [bell] >> All right, he's going to work through a red light here. But yeah, but we're not going to you know, like pursue him and stuff like that. I don't I don't think that's in our policy anymore, so. Junior cruisers, make sure you back off. If he wants to go to Reynolds, let him go to Reynolds. Looking like a westbound turn on Fifth Avenue from Joyce, normal speeds. We don't have any legal reason or means to hold you, so. Okay. Um just be careful. You can tell Chris what So, Chris, he told her that he does not want He's not going back. >> not trying to That's enough, Alan. Breathe. Even though I know he didn't want to check in with you, which Oh, that's That's like the least of my worries right now. It's his own safety and the safety of the community. I mean, everyone's at risk right now. Chopper, he's slowed down now in some traffic. Uh approaching What's he approaching? Behind that flatbed truck. Traffic's jamming up. Might be able to get in there. There he is. Up there. Go behind him. Go behind him. He's stopped in the middle of the freeway now. I don't know if he's decided to commit. He's in the far lane now, 270 north, well short of Broad stop. Two county cars behind him. He's going the wrong way on the freeway. Count two county cars have engaged him. He's wrong way now into 270. All right, he's about 70 miles an hour in the hammer lane going into wrong way 270 southbound in a northbound lane. He's going to crash. That's scary, man. Easy easy now. Wow. We're going to be passing coming up on East Main Street still. Still wrong way 270 southbound in the northbound lanes. Can you try to stay in like a farm or nothing? See passing there passing Livingston. Uh Main. Past Main Street wrong way still. Hey Carol, go ahead and back off. Go ahead and back off a little bit. Let the Go ahead and back off a little bit. Let him Let him try to take an exit if he's coming up on one. We're backing off. He's still continuing southbound in northbound lanes. Uh we're getting ready to approach 70. What's he doing here? Oh, wow. Dude, he's trying to hit people. K99 have disengaged. He's still going head on past Main. Not going to be able to get off or anything? No, we're just engaging hoping he takes an exit here or something. Oh, hello. Copy wrong way still over top of 70. He's aiming at cars, dude. This is not a good time for us. OH BOY. HE is not making any attempt to swerve out away from vehicles, oncoming traffic. Mercy on my soul. Chopper is up at 2,021 hundred feet here. We're still high. 270 southbound, south of 70, wrong way. I'm not engaged, but I'm still southbound cuz there's nowhere to get over. Coming up to 104. Refugee, I mean. I don't know why he didn't take that turn around. >> [bell] >> He's coming up to refugee now, still wrong way, in the hammer lane. Oh, there it is. All right, he just swiped head-on. Yeah, just kidding. Oh, code four, code four. 10-5, 10-5. Start medics, heavy rescue, radio. Call out. Yeah, hit one head-on. He's trying to get out of that car. Slow me down, don't go in too heavy. Go, go, go, go, go. Hold on, they're freaking He's trying to bail, he's trying to bail. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. He's up there, he's up there, he's up there. He's bailing out of the car. HE'S GOT A GUN. SHOTS FIRED. Shots fired. All right, we got him in the center of freeway. Hands up. He's walking. He's running southbound in the berm of the northbound lanes. Stop! Got a gun. Got a gun. I think car is close. GET DOWN! GET DOWN! SHOTS FIRED. SHOTS FIRED. GET DOWN! GET DOWN! [screaming] WATCH IT! SLOW ME DOWN. SLOW ME DOWN. Flat me out. Bring me down. Slow me down. Flat me out. I'm slowing it. HERE WE GO. HE'S SHOOTING WITH TASER. SUSPECT DOWN. SUSPECT DOWN. WHERE IS HE AT? RIGHT HERE. LAYING DOWN. CAREFUL. ALL RIGHT, CHOPPER. I can't tell if we've got shots fired or if we've got a tasering. All right, keep the air clear. START MEDICS. YOU GOOD? YOU GOOD? HANDS! HANDS! [screaming] LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS! HANDS OUT NOW! THERE'S THE victim car he hit head-on way down here. I don't know if anybody's got out of it or not. Chopper, when you get him secure, we need to get somebody up to that victim car he struck head-on, please. If we haven't already. Let's get somebody up to that victim vehicle RIGHT NOW. I GOT me on you. You good? You good? GET YOUR CAR. I got him. I got him. WHERE WE AT? 271. Gun's over here. I got it. You got it? I got it. Secure. Chopper, 270 northbound, directly over top of Novick's feet. Again, can you confirm medics are rolling? Freeway is shut down right now. 270 northbound. All right, we got three cars I don't think there's nothing I can do with a tourniquet. He also struck that red semi that stopped in the freeway. We haven't seen any movement out of that other victim 5A vehicle. You got gloves on? Grab them. Let me put some gloves on. I fired. Are you good? >> Yeah, I'm good. There's no pulse. He's got one in the head. There's nothing I'm just documenting. We can't give him first aid. I know that they said that they were involved in a shooting and they were giving first aid to the suspect. Camera's on. That's on copy. I'm hot. Start CPR. I got him. I got him, Mike. Radio, suspect is secure right now. We have officers tending to him, multiple officers. Freeway is shut down. At least two other vehicles involved in this five. 10-4, we copy. We have units and medics en route. Jesus. Well, I saw him as soon as he got out of the car, he pointed the gun. As soon as we started running up Yeah, I know. He shot at us. Yeah. As we were coming through, as we heard the pops, I [laughter] think it might have been from you on the other side. I couldn't see him cuz I saw him look like he was trying to carjack somebody. They said they have no idea, but there's no movement. The car that he hit. Was he by himself in the car? Yeah, it looked like it. Oh, we've got several hurt. Should have ended this an hour ago. Rather have a car crash than a shootout. And we'll probably need a couple more 24s. 10-4, copy. 1270 at Hamilton. Yes, this will be for the uh uh driver of the five. I know you're probably terrified. Are you okay? You okay? Okay. You're not hurt or anything? Okay. Did you see everything? Okay. You mind sitting here and waiting? Okay. You okay? Okay. All right. Anyway? Anyway you would have approached him. I don't think he ever had a gun here, but I don't know. I don't really look for this stuff. >> Well, there was a gun in the bag. Was there? Which bag? And he was Yeah, he was waving a gun while he was driving. I should have looked to see what the hell it was. I Do me a favor. So, will you have a seat in your car? Okay. Relax. >> Being ordered to have a seat in my car by Sergeant A91. Camera is on. Worst case, we could I mean, if they feel a need for it, we can get him a warm one, but if they can stabilize him, it's their call. I need to sit and cry and process. Yep, and then you You can call me anytime. They wouldn't be able to do CPR in the back seat of this. So, one of us, if we could lay it and squat straddle him. You know what I mean? And put him on the bench. Just if you can text me an update, I would like to know about the poor people in the car. I mean, I can't tell if the car's totaled. >> I know that the last I heard they said 90 on 270 in the wrong going the wrong way. Chopper, your medics are coming in from the south in the hammer lane. I mean, it's still an option if he's critical and they need to get him there. Seven is uh Is there anybody injured in the vehicle seat? Up there, there's major injury up there. Um it's situations like this where I think could we have done it differently? I mean, we've been looking for him since February 2nd. And it's been like this. It's been like we've been within 200 m and then poof, he squirts on us and he fled from Yeah. Yeah, he definitely was. He fled from Blendon Township 2 weeks ago doing 90 mph on the inner city streets. Yeah, we were trying to set up stop sticks and he stopped just uh south of Broad Street was whole way obviously. And we were getting out to do a felony stop and he That's when he went in the opposite direction. So, we backed off, turned our lights off, and there was nowhere for us to turn around until right here. And that's when he pulled forward. 141 Copy. Madison Township 181 pronounced at 6:01. Copy Madison Township. 43-year-old Andrew Teague was pronounced dead at the scene, and an autopsy later revealed that he suffered gunshot wounds to the head, trunk, [music] and right arm. A toxicology report indicated that Teague did not test positive for any drugs in his system, though a bag of white powder and another bag containing a green leafy substance were found in his pockets. Officers quickly located a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson near his body, which Deputy [music] Severance had kicked from his hand during the arrest. Investigators discovered two casings [music] covered by traffic cones in this photo next to the vehicle Teague was driving. Both matched Teague's firearm, suggesting [music] that Teague fired immediately after exiting the wrecked vehicle. The fact that there were unspent rounds in Teague's firearm, and that Officer Keifer reported to see him rack the slide back, suggests that Teague's firearm may have jammed. According to the Franklin County Prosecutor's Office, a grand jury declined to indict any officer for any wrongdoing. Thankfully, the driver of the black Honda survived the collision with minor injuries. A subsequent interview of Teague's childhood friend further illustrated his state of mind leading up to the shooting. I knew for the past couple days he's been more agitated. And I don't want to say paranoid, hyper-vigilant is what I'll use cuz it's not psychotic, so it's not paranoia. He'd been like he was always constantly looking out the window or looking out my window. >> Mhm. Which, you know, I do too cuz I'm nosy, but it it felt different with him. He He didn't say these verbatim, but he said, "I There's no way out of this. I don't know any other way out of it." He mentioned wanting to harm you. Okay. Um and he said something like, "I'm going to go out in a blaze and I might take some extra time off and try to Definitely. figure this one out. Take care of number one first. Make Make sure your mind's right. Uh you can call or text me anytime. If I'm awake, I'll pick up the phone or text back. If I'm not awake, I'll text you back as soon as I can.