Officer Hit During Police Chase in Mooresville

MOORESVILLE, Ind. — An officer with the Mooresville Metropolitan Police Department was injured while they tried to stop a car during a chase Saturday evening.

Around 6:45, Mooresville officers arrived in the area of State Road 67 to help out deputies with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office who were chasing after a car going northbound from Paragon, Indiana.

An officer was using a tire deflation device, and the person drove around the right side of a police car, and that’s when they hit the officer.

The officer was taken to a hospital, and they are expected to be okay.

Deputies say they found the driver and tried to put them to a stop, but the driver ran off again.

If you have any information, you can give the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office a call at 765-342-5544. You can also give Mooresville Police a call at 317-831-3434.