BROOKLYN, Ill. (AP) — Police in southwestern Illinois say they found a 35-year-old shooting victim’s lifeless body in the trunk of a car that had just crashed into a pole near a village police department outside St. Louis.
St. Clair County Coroner Rick Stone identified the victim as Roderick Taylor of Cahokia.
The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Taylor was found Thursday night after an unidentified motorist’s car struck a utility pole while attempting to avoid a police stop in the village of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn police have not yet identified the driver, who was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
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