Samantha Lee Russell

How they died

Pursuit

Officers responded about 5 p.m. to a disturbance with a gun at a hotel. A man told them a man had robbed him at gunpoint and that he was able to run away. The robbery suspect was identified as 34-year-old Jaime Chavez, who was wanted in connection to a previous robbery. He was located and arrested near Maple and Ridge. The other man, Javan Jermaine Ervin, 37, fled in a white 2003 Dodge Ram. Ervin drove through the red light at Central and Ridge at a high rate of speed, collided with another other, killing Samantha Russell. She was eight months pregnant, her son survived and is healthy.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Samantha Lee Russell, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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