MILTON, WV (WOWK) — Thursday night time round 7:30 p.m., Dec. 2, a police cease on I-64 rapidly became a wild pursuit by Milton after police say Ramon Kimbrough of Lexington, Kentucky sped off.
Police say they adopted him throughout the median down the Milton exit, and down John’s Creek right into a discipline.
The chase continued west on US 60 the place he allegedly struck a automobile earlier than plowing into the aspect of Barnyard BBQ.
Police say medicine and money had been discovered within the automotive and on him. Kimbrough was charged with fleeing with reckless indifference, possession of a managed substance with intent to ship, assault on an officer, fleeing on foot, driving on a suspended license and leaving the scene of an accident with property harm.
Police and employees of the restaurant affected say it’s a miracle nobody was injured.
One witness tells 13 Information she couldn’t consider her eyes.
“I couldn’t consider it, I received a textual content and I used to be like ‘You’re kidding.’ Yano? ‘It’s not actual.’ After which once I drove up and noticed it it was loopy. I couldn’t consider it. I imply, a automotive was in our constructing!” says Teresa Grove, front-of-the-house supervisor at Barnyard BBQ.
“He was out and in of site visitors, weaving all around the lanes. At one level right here on the Smith Road intersection he was within the eastbound lane going westbound he went again throughout the median and pulled into the parking zone of the Barnyard BBQ… failing to cease and he went on forward and plowed into the constructing,” says K9 Patrolman Wynston Lloyd of the Milton Police Division.
Grove says it’s lucky nobody was there when this incident occurred—in any other case the scenario might have been a lot worse.
It might have been a fortunate break—as in water most important break—that saved lives.
“The town of Milton had two water leaks yesterday so we needed to shut early…Had we been right here all day, I used to be scheduled for a double, David and I’d have been standing on the dish tank doing dishes for our finish of the night time shut,” Grove says, speaking about exactly the realm the automotive crashed into.
As for a way lengthy it might take to reopen, Grove says it’s anybody’s guess. The proprietor of the restaurant, Crystal Tincher, says they’re working with insurance coverage to evaluate any structural harm.
For now, Grove and the others are merely counting their blessings.
“Thank the lord we closed at 2:30,” Grove says.
Police say Kimbrough is a wished parole violator out of Ohio on a non-extradition warrant. He’s being held at Western Regional Jail pending arraignment.
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