Richard Shreckengaust

Deadly force

Police received a call from a woman whose friend was sending her text messages saying she had been kidnapped. Police located the other and attempted to pull it over. Shreckengaust, the driver, refused to stop, and eventually crashed into an embankment. A deputy shot Shreckengaust several times, killing him, when he allegedly leaned to the right of the car. Police did not find a gun. The woman, an acquaintance of Shreckengaust, was not harmed.