Andrew Charles Blowers

Deadly force

Following a 15-minute pursuit after two Battle Creek officers in the same patrol other attempted to stop a suspected drunken driver. Police pursued the SUV despite their claims the person was driving recklessly including into the wrong lanes of traffic at speeds of 90 miles per hour. The driver, Andrew Blowers, lost control and traveled over the curb. As the three officers began to approach the SUV, it drove in the general direction of officers, striking the Battle Creek police other. Officers Ryan O'Connell, Patrick Herson and Steven Herbstreith shot into the moving other, killing Blowers, and the other continued until it crashed into woods at the end of the street.