Indiana State Police are investigating a police involved shooting that left one man dead.
This is after a high speed pursuit started in Goshen on Sunday night shortly after 10.
Authorities say an Elkhart County Police officer tried to stop a Ford pickup truck in the area of State Road 15 near County Road 40 for a traffic violation. As the officer walked up to the truck, the driver took off.
The deputy then went after the truck for several minutes, and was backed up by Goshen Police, once the chase entered the city limits. The pursuit lasted for about 10 minutes when the suspect crashed into two police cars and a building on East Lincoln. The building, which houses Faubion Plumbing, has extensive damage to a garage door and a wall.
A Goshen Police officer shot 47-year-old Melvin Bledsoe III of Goshen at the end of the pursuit. Now more information has been released, yet, on the events following the crash. Police are not releasing the name of the officer involved at this time.
"It's something you're never prepared for...it's just unusual that we'd have somebody shot and killed out here," said Greg Faubion, owner of Faubion Plumbing, Heating, and Air Conditioning, the location where Bledsoe was shot and killed.
At this point police are not saying why the officer felt the need to fire his weapon.
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