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Atlanta man killed by teen fleeing police
By SAEED AHMED
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/29/05
A 58-year-old Atlanta man was killed Thursday afternoon when his vehicle was
struck by a car driven by a teenager fleeing arrest, police said.
Hovie R. Clack was headed south on Moreland Avenue when his Hyundai Sonata
was struck on the driver's side by an Oldsmobile Cutlass that barrelled down
a side street and ran a red light, authorities said.
Police said Christopher D. Pullins,19, was fleeing when his car slammed into
another car at Moreland Avenue and Hosea Williams Boulevard Thursday,
killing the other driver.
The impact of the collision spun Clack's car counter-clockwise and caused it
to slam into an unoccupied building, taking down a section of the one-story
structure. He died at the scene.
"What a shame, what a shame," said area resident S. Elliott, 54, who
witnessed the accident. "He may have been someone's father someone's
grandfather even heading home from work."
Gene Brown, 49, who was returning from a convenience store on foot, said he
rushed up to Clack shortly after the accident and found the man still
conscious, trying to mouth words his body was too weak to lend voice to.
Officers had begun arriving by then, so Brown said he moved out of the way.
"When I turned around and looked back, they had already put a white sheet
over him," he said.
The chase began about 4 p.m. when a Georgia State trooper spotted the
Cutlass going nearly 100 mph on I-20 east and began pursuit, said state
patrol spokesman Larry Schnall.
Once the trooper turned on his lights and siren, the suspect, later
identified by police as 19-year-old Christopher D. Pullins, exited at
Glenwood Avenue and took city streets to Hosea Williams Boulevard, Schnall
said.
The Oldsmobile T-boned Clack's car where Hosea Williams intersects with
Moreland. After the collision, Pullins' car hit a concrete flower bed,
overturned and skidded a short distance before flipping right side up after
hitting another concrete flower bed, witnesses said.
Pullins, bleeding profusely, tried to run away but was collared by the
trooper. After a brief struggle, the trooper subdued Pullins with a Taser
gun.
He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where doctors discovered he had
ruptured his aorta, officials said.
Inside the car, authorities found a fully loaded semi-automatic weapon and a
scale with suspected cocaine residue, said Schnall.
Pullins is expected to be charged with vehicular homicide, felony attempting
to elude, aggravated assault, driving with a suspended license and other
charges, Schnall said.
Authorities said that the chase lasted less than five minutes and that
Pullins once struck the trooper's cruiser with his car.
The trooper, who was not immediately identified, followed proper procedure
when pursuing the teenager, Schnall said.
"The most important thing we have in mind in such situations is the safety
of the motoring public," he said. "Unfortunately we lost a life today while
trying to remove a dangerous person from the street."
Clack was unmarried and did not have any children, said his nephew, Russell
Clack of Dallas. He lived his whole life in Cabbagetown in a duplex his
mother left behind.
"He was heavily into genealogy and traced the family tree all the way back
to the 1700s," the nephew said. "There were multiple rooms in the house that
he filled with his reports that he spent many many years compiling. That was
his passion."
Joe wrote:
>Our leading Southern Clack researcher was killed by an automobile fleeing
the Atlanta police.<
Joe:
I could not access the article without joining the website and giving
all my private info away. Could you copy and paste it into a message,
please.
I thought the police were not going to participate in chases that put the
unsuspecting public into danger unless it is a person who is a danger to
society. I hope this was not a petty thief that they were chasing.
Regards
Nan
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