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By MICISAEL BECKER

News Keporter

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berpasted to see thar thing! lying
through the ait,’ said S8-pear-old
McConnell “Thete’s af hill at
that area and the first thine | saw
was a car heading straight for me
aicborne, “He landed pear me,
cranked the car over, pereeched,
and just missed ouc car/by a foot:
Then To saw four police cam fis
over the hil

Suid eyewitness Tom
Sutherland! who saw the action
from the post office at 7th Street
and Bellevue Avenue: “He went
through a group of cars stopped at
aored lighvyat 17th. He was just
screaming. He fish tailed around
the corner, He just missed a lady
standing there, She was absolutely
white,”"

Minutes earlier police had
observed Bowers, who had escaped
from Oakalla Feb. 7 along with
34-year-old Errol Kingswell, walk-
ing with a 25-year-old) Lower
Mainland woman near 25th Street
and) Marine Drive. The chase
began in earnest when police tried
to pull over the car the couple had
driven away.in, . ,

Police chased the car at speeds’
in excess of 80 miles per hour from
20th’ and Bellevue to I4th, north
on 14th to Marine Drive and, east-
bound. on Marine to 13th Street,
where the chase culminated in a

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Carleton: He tried ta
punch through a VW Jettaystop-
ped ata red hight with several other
1 Nw ekdesty couple in the car
suffered ‘neck Injuries and facial
laceration’, “

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*“*There’s a hill at that
area and the first thing
/ saw was acar heading
straight for me airborne.

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He landed near me,
cranked the caraver, |
screeched, and just
missed our car by ay
foot. Then I saw four, ci
police cars fly over the.
hill?” \
—Eyewitness \,
Pat McConnell

CROCE LOLA LEER
Eleven vehicles, including a

Police car, were damaged during

Bowers’ accelerated attempt to

escape caplure.

Bowers, slightly. built and
balding, had been admitted to
Oakalla July 22 and was being held
on a bench warrant to face charges
on 4 counts of robbery,’ five
counts for use-of a firearm and
possession of a firearm.

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