[kellyhound]

ALBANY, Ga.
Kellyhound has obtained dashboard camera video from the car of the drug agent who chased a drug suspect until a crash that killed the suspect and an innocent driver.

It was June 27, 2007 when 21-year old Billy Klewitz was killed in a head-on crash with drug suspect Bobby Jones. Billy had just left work at a Winn Dixie store. Jones was running from drug agent Gary Price.

On Monday, the lawyer for Billy Klewitz' family says the chase never should have happened.

Video tape from the officer's dashcam shows how he and drug suspect Bobby Jones weaved in and out of traffic during a two-minute chase through the streets of Albany.

They ran five red lights as they raced through the medical district. Their speed on that street, most of which is two-lanes, was estimated at 85 miles per hour.

"Listen to the speed accelerate," said Eidson.

As the two used turn lanes in the chase down the middle of North Jefferson as they passed Phoebe Putney Hospital, Attorney Patrick Eidson says the officer violated the city's no chase policy and ADDU's policy which states officers should avoid contributing to the danger that has already been created by the suspect.

"Look at the traffic, look at what was around churches, schools, it's just everything policy says you're not supposed to do," said Eidson.

As they crossed the Jefferson Street bridge, both sped up and the suspect tossed from the window what agents later in the tapes described as dope.

"The officer was pressuring that driver into passing those cars by staying right on him, keeping the speed up as high as it was and then he passed the cars as well," said Eidson.

The State Patrol Investigators estimate Bobby Jones was traveling 96 mph as the two passed Philema and continued along old Leesburg Road and into Lee County, winding around bends and through traffic.
The police vehicle weaved through oncoming traffic as the driver crossed the center line. Jones then hit his brakes before colliding head-on with Billy Klewitz.

"Look at him passing vehicle in the curve, oh, ah," said Eidson. As the Klewitz family prepares to mark the first anniversary of their 21-year old son's death, there's still the question of why this happened and who should be held responsible.

SCRT recommended no criminal charges for Corporal Gary Price.

"For whoever is in charge of him i.e. all of the heads of the drug unit, to allow this to continue is just, it's just negligent," said Eidson.

Negligent, they say, because Price was only placed on administrative leave but later returned to the streets only to be involved in another pursuit of a drug suspect five months later that included another crash.

For that, he was suspended 15 days but has since returned to duty.

The Board that runs the drug squad stands by Officer Price's decision to chase Bobby Jones that night, even though agents knew who Jones was and could have arrested him later.

Price remains on the job and the drug unit board wouldn't comment for this story.

[chris]

Kellyhound has obtained dashboard camera video

This always cracks me up lol..

[Number5ive]

[Route66]

The guy is worried about school zones at night.

[Den777]

It easy for anyone who isn't trying to get paid to understand whos to blame, it's the criminals fault. You don't want cops to catch these criminals, then post your address so they can move into your neighborhood where it's safe for them to do what they want.

[joethurr]

there has been just too many cases of pursuit that end in death... not only of perp but also innocent lives have been lost..

[Robert440]

They all ready knew who the guy they were chasing was...pick him up later picking his nose watching tv or something!!

[mcpronoun]

What, no aftermath..... KH, you slipping on the gore hun?