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Charges filed in Deadly Crash

By Greg Bebermeyer/Associated Press

02/19/2016

(KNZA)--A Topeka man is facing charges after a deadly crash during a police pursuit in the capital city.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says 20-year-old Marcus Cruz, Jr. was booked into the Shawnee County Jail Thursday night on charges including first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery after he was released from a hospital.

The Patrol said a trooper tried to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation around noon Thursday, on Southwest Gage at I-70, but the driver failed to stop. The trooper briefly pursued the vehicle, which struck a second car after running a stop light at the intersection with Southwest 6th Avenue. The patrol says a passenger in the second car died, and the driver of that car was hospitalized with critical injuries.

Killed in the wreck was 69-year-old Tecumseh, Kansas resident Edward Greene.

Cruz and an 8-month-old child in the back seat of his car were taken to a hospital where they were treated for minor injuries. A passenger in his vehicle was not hurt.

It marked the second time in two weeks that a person was killed in Topeka in a crash involving a law enforcement chase.

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