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On March 17th, 2024, officers from Uklid PD, a suburb just outside Cleveland, Ohio, were alerted to a carjacked white Jeep Compass that had been taken at gunpoint 2 days earlier in Cleveland. After tracking its movement through automated license plate readers, a patrol officer closed in as the suspect vehicle turned onto a residential street. The marked unit activated its lights and attempted a traffic stop on the stolen Jeep. What they didn't know is that the following events would end in tragedy. Heat. Heat. Yeah, we are. going. Oh, yeah. He's getting off. 156. 105 roller 156 156 cars on fires. I don't know the address. >> Copy 156 behind the greenhouse. >> Got one vehicle that flipped. I don't know the oxygen of the vehicle. Stay back. Stay back. Will Cox, where you at? No, >> I came to you. I got you. I got you. >> You guys good? >> We got one more. One more. >> Keep your hands up on my way. Somebody climb to Eminem. >> Hey ma'am, wake up. >> I don't know. They ran that way. She's dead. >> Damn. Is she a man? >> No. Stay back. >> I'm a stand. >> Stand up. Sit down. >> You don't know. >> Sit down now. Sit down now. I got the other jump away. >> Come on now. Keep going. >> Don't reach for anything. Go on the ground. >> Can you give me your 20 exactly 156? >> Hold on. Got to go under. >> All right, we got 25 radio two in custody. I'll give you an address in a second. >> Take a breath. I got him. I'm not going back there. >> Is there a gun back here anywhere someone's going to find? >> I don't know. >> Tell me now. I want a kid to find it. >> There's a gun. You got to find me. >> Go. She's She's gone. Ma'am, >> she's gone. >> I'm telling you. Yeah. >> Ma'am, please walk away. Please. Just walk. Ma'am. >> Ma'am. I got to >> Ma'am. Ma'am. Ma'am, listen to me. Just walk away. I'm telling you. Okay. >> She's gone. Go. Go. Sit. Come on. Ma'am, please. Ma'am. Hey, ma'am. I know you want to help. There's nothing you can do. Hey, listen to me. >> And that's my niece right there. >> Okay, ma'am. Ma'am, I'll explain everything. Can you sit down? Hey, sit down for me. Okay, sit down for me. >> My That's my other [Applause] right after you get off. Congratulations. >> What is going on? That's my home. >> I'll tell you in a second. They were in a stolen car that was taken at gunpoint. Okay. Can you please sit down for me? Just sit down. >> Flip her. Don't move her at all. Her face is like >> Hey, Will Cox. Was that Was this clear? >> Yes, it's clear, >> man. Please. >> God damn it. [Applause] Is he turning off his siren? You're good. Come here, Ben. >> Ben, what? Leave me alone. There goes another. Kia, >> come here. I >> killed somebody. >> No, you didn't. Hang on. That's your car. Okay. >> I got to move the cars real quick. Just hang out right here. All right. I'll be right back with you. Hey, get away from that car. >> I don't care. Get away from the car. >> You see what's going on? Get away from the car. >> This is not away from the car. Go. Go. >> I'm going. Ma'am, I'm going to put you in cuffs in the back of that car, too, if you don't listen to him. >> I'm going to go >> You got any weapons on you? >> Speak up. >> No, I 17. 17. >> I'm going to move these cars. >> That's what I'm saying though. You guys are going to blame us for making >> go. >> Go. >> So, what happens when your car gets robbed? Huh? >> Some kids out here. >> Okay, then go. >> Is she dead? I don't I I want to say yes, but >> Gabby said she okay. >> No, I just killed somebody. Dude, >> relax. >> I would like to get you probably back to the station. Okay. All right. You're I'm >> You're okay. You're okay. Just stop. Let me get you in the car. >> Take mine. This is yours. >> Yeah. >> I don't want you driving this. This is your >> huh? >> I don't want you driving. Okay. You hit that car so hard. >> Hey. >> Yeah. >> I want to get him back to the station. >> Will Cox. >> Are you going? >> Yeah. >> So, he's upset obviously. So, I just want to get back to the station off the scene just because I don't want people keeping on coming up and just messing with him or doing anything. >> Taking a [ __ ] I'll give him a ride back. >> All right. >> Hey guys, I don't know who's in that car 16 or 18 that's on the offramp, but it's probably going to need to be moved cuz fire's coming very shortly now. [Applause] Can you open this one up, please? Can I talk to my >> I don't know who took you out. >> I didn't know the car so I can do it. >> Can you get my purse and my phone, please? >> Can y'all do me a favor? >> Just out of respect of >> whomever might be, >> would you mind going in the house or do you live over here? >> Mhm. >> Did you observe anything like the accident happened? right here. This car just flew past in front of me. I had to hurry up and hurry up and stop. But when I see the car fly past, it just smack cuz you see everything just all this get the flying everywhere. I live on this street right here. Just left out the house. >> Okay. >> Then I go over there and check the lady cuz I'm a whole ass RN. They talking about she gone. No, she not. She had a whole ass puss. >> Okay. Out of respect for her. >> I respect what you said, but y'all other officer out of lie. No one's driving the car at all. >> She got ejected. >> This happened 10 minutes ago, 15 minutes ago. >> I want to tell you to sit cuz it's not it's not normal to see what you saw. Okay. >> It is. I'm a registered nurse. I see people coming in at the ER every day. >> Not everybody's like that. Okay. You saw the whole thing. >> I didn't see the whole thing. I was outside >> about to go and then that car just came flashing past zooming fast. So I had to hurry up and stop cuz it was actually my time to go. >> And it struck that vehicle. >> It struck this vehicle out that vehicle. She blew out the vehicle. >> I I don't know. We're thinking so. So did this roll or >> No, it just spent like it spent and all that went everywhere like all up in the air. But that that that young lady in the back of that car, that's my that's my daughter-in-law. >> She she was in the stolen vehicle that hit this lady. >> But how But how she know it was stolen? >> I don't know any of that. I'm just letting you know that the vehicle was stolen as a nurse. Okay. And as a first responder, I know you want to do whatever you can to help somebody, but I promise you, unfortunately, there was nothing you could do at that point. >> And tell them don't chase them if they no felonies. So, I just I'm not trying to argue with her and I don't I don't want you arguing with the officers or anything. We're just trying to talk. >> I live here though. I can't get in my driveway. She's talking about some my phone. I can do whatever I want to do. This is where I live at. I can't even pull my car in the driveway. >> I understand. Respect the person. >> No, I do. I'm so That's just >> She going to the hospital. >> Yeah, she is. >> Yes. >> The girl. >> Yes. >> Oh, >> that's my my my son girlfriend. The girl just got home. Got >> a good relationship. She was in that car, right? >> She probably ain't know if it was stolen. >> It wasn't no normal vehicle. It wasn't like for no petty crime, okay? It was a serious crime that that vehicle was taken. >> It was possible. So, just know it was a serious crime. We don't chase for like petty stuff. You just got to understand that you got my officers that are involved in the chase that are hyped up. I don't know if somebody said something disrespectful to you, but you got to understand they're not Nobody's trying to be a disrespect for you. >> You got to call it over. >> You do. Absolutely. I'm sure probably a million people asked you guys already, but did you guys see anything or I I was in the living room watching TV. I heard something. What I thought I first heard a boom. I thought it was a something. >> Yeah. They probably boom. Then I said, "Oh, somebody going to get to." But I didn't imagine when I open the door to see this. Yeah, >> I seen the police running on the side of the white house with their guns out. Did they catch the guy? >> Yeah, we got two people that were back there. >> Good, man. I'm so sick of this. Was that lady walking or was she thrown from a car? >> Um, from what I understand, she was thrown from that car. >> Yeah. Oh, [Music] >> the suspect driving the stolen Jeep, Tyrone Griffin, who was 17 years old at the time of the crash, pleaded guilty in connection with the Uklid police pursuit that resulted in the death of 44year-old Michelle Wall. Wall was on her way to church when the stolen Jeep driven by Tyrone Griffin struck her vehicle at a high rate of speed, ejecting her from the car. Medics later pronounced her dead at the scene. Griffin entered guilty pleas to one count of attempted murder and one count of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. A firearm was recovered from the stolen Jeep which had been taken during a carjacking involving two women in Cleveland on March 15th. Neither victim reported injuries from the initial carjacking. The word routine does not exist in policing. A stolen car taken at gunpoint isn't just a piece of property. It's a loaded weapon racing down the city streets. And when the person driving is a juvenile, the danger multiplies and youth doesn't erase the risk, it amplifies it. Because impulse and horsepower make for a deadly combination. And I know firsthand that criminals behind the wheel do not calculate consequences. They don't see people driving home from work or just people going to church. And impact is unforgiven because one second of reckless flight can erase an entire life in the blink of an eye. And that's the part the public doesn't like to confront. And honestly, I understand why. And a single pursuit decision isn't just about the suspect and squad cars. It's about the unknown people on the road who never actually be a part of it in the first place. And I've learned that cops live in that contradiction. pursuit too aggressively and you risk tragedy. You hold back and you allow a violent suspect to slip away only to strike again later. There's no clean out when the suspect is a juvenile willing to play with lives that don't belong to him. So my question is, does age excuse the devastation left behind because a stolen car doesn't care if his driver is 16 or 36? Because the results are the same and the destruction just as finer.

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