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Man sets car on fire after assault, high-speed chase that ends on I-65 ramp

NC GAZETTE / WBRT RADIO
STAFF REPORT

Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, 3:15 p.m. (ADDED photo, 3:45 p.m.) — A 30-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times Friday morning and her alleged assailant led police on a high speed pursuit that began in Bardstown and ended on the I-65 southbound ramp off the Bluegrass Parkway in Hardin County.

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HERBERT J. MCGOWAN

At 8 a.m. Friday, Nelson County deputies and Nelson County EMS were dispatched to the Fast Food Mart, 1151 Bloomfield Rd., for a report of an injured woman who was struck by a vehicle or fell out of one. They found a 30-year-old woman with multiple stab wound in her arm and back. Witnesses said the woman jumped from the moving vehicle.

Her alleged assailant, Herbert McGowan, 37, fled the scene in a black Chevrolet Impala

At 8:16 a.m., Nelson County Dispatch received a complaint of a gas drive-off at Maywood Chevron, 2590 Springfield Road by a man driving a black Chevy Impala. Officers caught up with the suspect on Parkway Drive and he fled on Woodlawn Road to Bloomfield Road, then turned west on West John Rowan and reportedly forced oncoming traffic off the road. Bardstown Police officers assisted deputies in the pursuit. The chase continued to US 150 and then headed westbound Bluegrass Parkway toward Elizabethtown.

During the pursuit, deputies saw the subject pouring gas from a container in the vehicle onto the car’s seats and interior. The pursuit ended on the parkway’s southbound exit ramp onto I-65 after Kentucky State Police deployed stop sticks which disabled the vehicle and it was stopped.

According to police, the man then set the car ablaze.

McGowan was taken into custody, treated for burns at Flaget Memorial Hospital, then lodged in the Nelson County Jail. HeĀ faces multiple charges, including assault, first-degree, domestic violence.

The victim, whose name was not released, was transported by EMS to Flaget and later flown to University Hospital in Louisville for treatment of her injuries.

According to Nelson County Sheriff Ed Mattingly, the investigation is ongoing.

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