We’ve reported on more than our fair share of police chases in 2026, but this pursuit is one of the wildest that we’ve seen yet. One man in Dayton blew through a police blockade, leading the cops to go after the suspect. During a foot chase, the man managed to enter one of the police cruisers and drove off. However, it wasn’t long before he was caught since he didn’t know how to use the brakes and crashed into a home with two people inside.
Officers learned man was a suspect in a homicide
On September 3 at around 11:47 p.m., an unnamed man in a Toyota SUV drove through an intersection “at a high rate of speed” while it was blocked by several cruisers from the Dayton Police Department, according to a post from Dayton Police & Fire on its official Facebook page.
The kicker is that the police cruisers weren’t there to catch the man in the first place and was cutting off traffic at W. Third St. and Gettysburg Ave. due to a crash. It’s unclear why the suspect drove recklessly through the blockade and “knocked down a street sign” as it sped past, but it wasn’t until the chase ended that officers learned the adult male was a suspect in a homicide in Miami Township and a suspect in an aggravated robbery in Moraine.
Dashcam footage shows the SUV driving on the other side of the road and hitting the middle divider as it continued to speed down the street. This prompted officers to chase the vehicle for nearly two minutes as it rushed through several residential side streets. One officer was able to execute a PIT maneuver, hitting the SUV on the back and causing it to crash near a tree.
That’s usually when a typical police chase ends, but the suspect is then seen exiting the vehicle and running in the space between two houses. Multiple officers from at least four police cruisers jumped out of their vehicles and pursued the man on foot.
However, they “lost sight of him” as the suspect circled back toward the crash site and entered the driver’s seat of a police cruiser. Bodycam footage shows a female officer seeing the man in the vehicle and joining other officers in ordering the suspect to get out of the car. He instead ignores all of their commands.
Suspect violently crashes into a house, causing injuries to two people inside
Dashcam footage from the stolen police vehicle shows the suspect accelerating through the yards of multiple homes, sideswiping one of the police cruisers, and speeding away. The man blasts through multiple stop signs and a handful of intersections, but then realizes that the street ends in a T-junction.
He is heard mentioning the brakes before crashing straight into a home. The vehicle crushes the window of the house and runs through multiple rooms as it comes to a violent stop.
As the man is pulled to the ground and arrested by an officer, another is seen racing through the open hole of the home and yelling for survivors. He asks whether the victims are able to walk and brings them outside through the wreckage. Images of the damage to the home were documented by WDTNTV.
The post states that during the arrest the suspect “attacked an officer, attempted to steal his gun, and bit the officer,” and that “force was used to take the suspect into custody as he continued to actively resist arrest.”
The incident resulted in injuries to seven officers, with six of them being taken to the hospital as a precaution. They were treated and released. Both victims that were inside the home were treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. The suspect was transported to a local hospital as well.
The man is set to face charges determined by the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office. The incident will be reviewed “in its entirety” by the Dayton Police Department’s Professional Standards Bureau at the end of the criminal prosecution.
Some commenters on Facebook agreed that the police needed to review the footage for proper protocol. One wrote, “Tomorrow’s briefing will be accompanied by a power point on how to lock a cruiser upon exiting vehicle.”
Another said, “Scooby doo a** chase buddy ran them around the house in circles and took the car wow not one officer but several … beyond that good job.”
