Passenger hits state trooper as he speeds away after traffic stop: police
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
David Pratt, 18, is wanted for driving a car into a Pennsylvania State Police trooper overnight Tues., May 11, 2021, on an East Lampeter Township road, police said. (Photo courtesy of the Pennsylvania State Police)
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Pennsylvania State Police are searching for an 18-year-old with an active arrest warrant who they say drove into a trooper while trying to flee an early Tuesday traffic stop in Lancaster County.
David J. Pratt was the passenger of a 2004 Honda Civic that was pulled over at about 2:20 a.m. on Route 462, east of Old Philadelphia Pike in East Lampeter Township, state police said.
A Pennsylvania State Police trooper shot at a man who hit him with a vehicle early Tuesday morning on Lincoln Highway East in East Lampeter Township, according to state police.
Police are still searching for the man, identified as 18-year-old David Joseph Pratt, of East Lampeter Township, who is considered armed and dangerous.
Troopers initiated a traffic stop at 2:20 a.m. for a vehicle in the 1600 block of Lincoln Highway East after a cigarette was discarded onto the roadway by one of the occupants, according to an affidavit of probable cause. A trooper asked the driver to step out of the vehicle and approached him, while Pratt stayed in the vehicle as a passenger, according to police.
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Police searching for man accused of striking trooper with vehicle, fleeing scene
Police say David Pratt, 18, struck a State Police trooper with his vehicle as he fled from the scene of a traffic stop at 2:20 a.m. Pratt remains at large.
Credit: State Police Published: 6:50 AM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 10:27 AM EDT May 11, 2021
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. State Police are searching for a man accused of striking a trooper with a vehicle and fleeing from a traffic stop.
David Pratt, 18, is wanted for his role in the inicdent.
On May 11 around 2:20 a.m., police conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle on Route 462 east of Old Philadelphia Pike in East Lampeter Township.