There鈥檚 running from the police and then, should the spirit thus inspire, stopping your car in the middle of a bridge, fleeing the car, and diving head first over the bridge rail to plunge 50 feet or more below into the water.
Gavin Thor Lundgren, 26, of Kimberling City, Missouri, made the second choice, police allege.
in the wee hours of Saturday morning, July 18, at around 2 a.m., on the that spans the waters of Table Rock Lake, located 260 miles southwest of 最新杏吧原创 in the Missouri Ozarks.
The 48-second video, cast in a murky yellow light, depicts the action: sheriff鈥檚 deputies, in their cars, with the lights flashing and sirens screaming, drive behind what a probable cause statement would later say was a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu.
Then, about nine second in, the Malibu appears to slow down in the right-hand lane. As the car is still rolling, its driver鈥檚 door swings open. At about 17 seconds, the driver鈥檚 leg pokes from the car and steps onto the deck of the bridge. He emerges bare-chested and in shorts below his knees.
While the car still rolls slowly, he takes a few stutter steps across the roadway and dives head first over the bridge鈥檚 far railing. At 20 seconds into the video, he is gone.
The car door swings shut and continues a lazy roll.
鈥淐ontact water patrol,鈥 a sheriff鈥檚 deputy says. 鈥淗e just jumped over the bridge.鈥
Oops. Driver license left on the passenger鈥檚 seat
Four deputies are then seen coming into the frame, approaching the car and casting their flashlights over the bridge鈥檚 side.
In his probable cause statement, written just after 5 a.m. Saturday, Stone County Deputy Sheriff Ashton Canfield notes that incident began at about 1:50 a.m. when he clocked the Malibu driving at about 75 miles per hour in a 45-mile-per-hour zone.
鈥淚 activated my emergency red and blue lights and audible siren tone and began trying to catch up with the vehicle,鈥 he wrote.
But just as Canfield caught up with the car at an intersection, and turned off his siren, the Malibu drove into a parking lot, went around a building, and reentered a street. He began driving away. By this time, another deputy had pulled up. Siren on again, they were in pursuit, the statement says.
They got to the bridge. Seconds later, the driver left his car and leapt off the east side, 鈥渄own into the water.鈥
鈥淭he vehicle was in drive and continued to roll forward,鈥 the deputy wrote. He noted that he drew his firearm. No one else was in the car.
鈥淚 placed the vehicle in park and saw a Missouri Driver鈥檚 license with the name Gavin Lundgren sitting on the passenger seat.鈥
The image on the license resembled the person who fled, he wrote. Sheriff鈥檚 deputies, accompanied by Southern Stone County firefighters, located Lundgren who, the probable cause statement said, tangled with the officers, allegedly headbutting one and leaving two others with cuts and lacerations on their arms and hands and red marks on their faces.
He was booked at 2:22 a.m.
鈥楲uckily he survived鈥
Lundgren on Tuesday was being held in the Stone County Jail on four charges: one for aggravated fleeing a stop or detention, one for third-degree assault and two for fourth-degree assault.
鈥淭his was definitely a first and luckily he survived the fall,鈥 the Stone County Sheriff鈥檚 Office posted on its Facebook page.
Court records show that at the time of his arrest Lundgren was scheduled to appear before a judge in Stone County on July 28 on a charge of damaging jail property.
While in jail in Stone County on May 19, Lundgren, a probable cause statement said, allegedly ripped the stuffing out of jail cell mattress and crawled inside 鈥渢o make a sleeping bag.鈥
