Driver flees Walmart parking lot in distressed vehicle, Delaware County OH


A driver fled at high speed from the Walmart parking lot in a white sedan showing signs of distress. The vehicle had sheets hanging inside and the front bumper was hanging off. The driver had been in contact with police and reportedly threatened people passing by who were allegedly harassing him. The incident indicates a possible mental health crisis.
Audio|Source: Delaware County Public Safety
02:25
Transcript:
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Copy, repeat, he's going to get out of the vehicle. He's currently taking off right now on a white sedan template. I can't read it.
00:06
Copy, he's taking off white sedan template.
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156 at the high speed of break that's going out of the Walmart parking lot heading.
00:16
Copy high speed out of this parking lot.
00:22
I already I'll set it up just in case.
00:29
Copy last eyes on him.
00:33
156, did you have a crime?
00:39
Allegedly threatened people passing him in his vehicle that were allegedly harassing him. He wouldn't identify him, but other than that, I don't have a crime.
00:52
I was still on the parking list.
01:00
It sounds like the mental health crisis if you didn't copy the first half of the dispatch.
01:07
Copy thanks.
01:13
1.56, do you have that direction of travel on them?
01:30
Check the area of Coles 90 Sunbury Road for a report of loud motorbikes or dirt bikes racing around the holes in the area. Medics-361 at 270, West Orange Road.
01:44
Clear. Metak-361 at 270, West Orange Road.
01:49
Cross streets are West Orange Avenue and Columbus Pike. East Orange Road responds on EMS-1.
01:55
Time out 1151.
01:56
Can we make contact with caller?
02:02
No, he has sheets hanging up in the car as well.
02:07
Nightcop, you haven't made a model by chance.
02:12
Silver sedan.
02:14
I don't have a model, I couldn't read it.
02:17
The front of the vehicle, the bumpers hang it off.
02:22
Mikeop, is it older or newer?
02:25
Older. Older.
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Delaware County, OH
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