Overview
- Police identified the driver as 39-year-old Samuel Lee, who received a bedside arraignment, faces multiple felony charges, and is held on a $1 million bond while hospitalized.
- Officers initially stopped Lee around 1:42 a.m. on Center Street in Manchester before he fled toward I-84 West, where stop sticks were deployed near the West Middle Turnpike on-ramp.
- Investigators say Lee fired several rounds from a handgun during the chase, striking at least one cruiser, and a firearm was later found on the driver’s side floor of his vehicle.
- Manchester Officer Kyle Busse returned fire from his cruiser on I-84 in East Hartford, striking Lee in the right hip; Lee surrendered, received on-scene aid, and was taken to Hartford Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.
- Body and dash camera footage released by the Connecticut Office of Inspector General documents the exchange, and the ongoing probe involves the state’s attorney and state police as I-84 reopened after hours-long closures.