Overview
- Police say the 39-year-old briefly stopped for a traffic stop on Center Street around 1:42 a.m. Saturday before fleeing toward I-84 West.
- Officers deployed stop sticks at the West Middle Turnpike on-ramp, puncturing the Lexus’s tires as the pursuit moved onto the highway.
- According to police, Lee fired several rounds and struck at least one cruiser, and Officer Kyle Busse returned fire from inside a patrol car, hitting Lee in the hip.
- The driver surrendered on the roadside in East Hartford, received medical aid, and was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
- The Office of the Inspector General released bodycam footage and is leading the review, and police say Lee faces new felony counts and had six outstanding rearrest warrants as I-84 West later reopened.