An 18-year-old Kentucky woman jumped to her death from Interstate 64 in Louisville following a police chase early Tuesday that originated in Indiana, officials said.
The woman was identified as Lilly Howard by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office. An overline on the office’s release said she jumped.
Louisville Metro Police received word from received word from the sheriff’s office in Harrison County, Indiana that officers were chasing an allegedly stolen vehicle that would soon be crossing into Louisville, LMPD spokesman Aaron Ellis said.
LMPD then received a report from Harrison County police that at the 2-mile marker of I-64 East, the driver got out of the car, fled on foot and leapt off the overpass. She sustained fatal injuries from the jump, they said, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Howard was driving the vehicle, police said.
“At no time was LMPD involved in any police action,” Ellis wrote in a statement to The Courier Journal.
LMPD’s homicide unit and Harrison County police will investigate the death, Ellis said.
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