Update: Man killed in Mobile police chase identified

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police have identified the man killed during a car chase Saturday night.

According to an MPD news release, 52-year-old Jason Sims was killed Saturday when the car he was driving hit a tree and caught fire.

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Officers saw a stolen vehicle in the area of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and North Lafayette Street. When they tried to stop the car, the driver refused, instead leading officers on a chase that ended in the 100 block of South Fulton Street, where the car hit a tree and burst into flames.

Officers pulled the driver and a passenger from the car, but Sims died at the scene. The woman passenger was taken to a local hospital for life-threatening injuries, and at latest check was in stable condition…

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