AKRON, Ohio (WJW) — Akron police are releasing new details about an officer-involved shooting that started with a disturbance at a Springfield Township IHOP and ended with a semi-truck driver shot by police in Akron.
Semi-truck driver fleeing police shot by Akron officers
Investigators said the driver set off a dangerous chain of events that left one officer seriously injured and several police cruisers damaged.
In newly released body camera footage, you can hear police yelling “Shots fired, shot’s fired, shots fired!” after police said a semi-truck driver rammed into multiple vehicles, including police cruisers, on Innovation Way in Akron February 28th.
The shooting came after a disturbance at an IHOP earlier Saturday on South Arlington Road. Springfield Township police responded around 6 p.m. to a report of a man causing a disturbance inside the restaurant…