Marvin Wallace Martin III

Suicide

An officer spotted a black Mazda 6 traveling the wrong way on Smith, police said. The officer tried to pull over the car, but the driver refused to stop and sped away. During the chase, the driver leaned out of the car window and fired gunshots at the officers. No officers returned gunfire or were wounded. Later the man exited the freeway at Kirkwood, sideswiped a guard rail, slammed into a power pole and stopped. Police were unable to see the man inside the car after the crash until one of them shattered a window with a bean bag fired at the other. Then they saw the man slumped in the front seat. He died at the scene. Police are trying to determine if the man died from injuries related to the crash or shot himself.