Randy Heater

Pursuit

At 8:21 p.m., Mansfield police responded to a report of three men fighting, with a woman potentially being held against her will. While en route, officers learned a man had been struck in the face with a tire iron and a man had fled in a pickup. Police found the 2005 Chevy Silverado pickup on Bowman Street, traveling north at a high rate of speed. The driver refused to stop. While police pursued, Heater reportedly traveled off the road and rammed a police cruiser. As police chased him through rural Richland County, the driver, Randy Heater, ultimately crashed and was killed.