MILWAUKEE — A Milwaukee police officer shot and killed a suspect Thursday after clinging to the outside of his vehicle for several blocks when the driver took off.
The officer was attempting to check on a wanted suspect with a parole violation on the 1900 block of 12th Street on Thursday morning, the Milwaukee Police Department announced in a press briefing.
Family has identified the suspect as Jonathan Otto.
The officer, along with an agent from the Milwaukee Department of Corrections, went to check on Otto, who, at the time of the officer's arrival, was in a full flat-bed tow truck with a passenger in the truck.
The officer approached the truck and ordered Otto to exit the vehicle, but the suspect refused.
The officer then attempted to remove him, at which point, Otto started the vehicle and drove off with the officer clinging to him and the driver's side window at a high rate of speed for several blocks.
Watch: Video shows officer clinging to outside of truck:
While driving, the officer commanded Otto to stop the vehicle and he kept refusing, at which point, the officer had to inform the suspect that if he did not stop, he would shoot.
When Otto still refused, police say the officer discharged his weapon and stopped the vehicle.
Otto sustained fatal injuries. The officer didn't sustain any life-threatening injuries but was later transported to the hospital. The passenger in the vehicle was also transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure, according to MPD.
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