Police officer KILLED in car crash while chasing traffic light offender

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A police officer from Missouri, USA who was a mother of six, was killed during a high-speed chase after losing control of her patrol car while trying to conduct a traffic stop.


Osage Beach police officer, Phylicia Carson, 33, was on patrol Sunday at around 1:20 a.m. when she spotted a vehicle speeding down a rural road in Camden County near the Lake of the Ozarks, Chief Todd Davis said during a press conference Saturday.

Carson activated her police lights and pursued the suspect to carry out a traffic stop, but the driver sped off.

While chasing down the suspect, Carson lost control of her patrol car and skidded off the road, crashing into a tree. The car ignited into flames upon impact with the tree.

The suspect Christopher Aaron Bishop Wehmeyer, 23, crashed minutes after Carson while he was fleeing the scene and was later arrested, according to police.

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Carson joined the police department in June 2023. She is survived by her husband, Grant Carson, and her six children.

Wehmeyer was charged with aggravated fleeing a stop or detention of a motor vehicle, resulting in death, according to online records.

Carson’s death marked the police department’s first line-of-duty loss in 30 years.

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