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Cleveland Heights Man Killed After Police Chase Called Off POSTED: 6:55 am EDT May 10, 2007 UPDATED: 11:31 am EDT May 10, 2007 CLEVELAND -- An innocent driver is dead and three suspects are in the hospital after a police chase came to a violent end Wednesday evening. The victim was John J. Rankins, 45, of Cleveland Heights. It happened at about 8:15 p.m., Sixth District police officers, vice and community service unit cars as well as an ATF agent were on gun suppression detail, an initiative to get guns off the streets. The law enforcement agents spotted a silver...

A man fleeing police at speeds in excess of 120 mph was arrested after crashing into two other cars in separate incidents during a midafternoon chase on northbound state Route 163. The 25-year-old suffered injuries in the second collision near Kearny Villa Road and was taken to a hospital. Two other drivers injured in the crashes also were hospitalized. The incident began about 2:30 p.m. in Hillcrest on Vermont Street, where a woman called 911 to report that her boyfriend had threatened to commit suicide by crashing his blue BMW convertible on a freeway. Police spotted him driving away from...