Cedar Rapids-A chase through four counties in east central Iowa Friday afternoon by law enforcement authorities ended in Cedar Rapids in an accident that claimed the lives of two people. One of the victims was the son of the Clarion Goldfield Dows Middle School principal. The Iowa State Patrol reported a 2019 Chevrolet Impala operated by 36-year-old Garrett R. Sager of Grand Island, Nebraska led law enforcement on the chase on Highway 30 starting in Marshall County. Sager fired upon the law officers during Friday’s pursuit striking an occupied police cruiser. The officers and deputies attempted multiple times to disable the suspects’ vehicle without success while the Sager car was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Highway 30. A final stopping attempt occurred when the Sager car collided head on with a 2004 model Chevrolet Impala driven by 16-year-old Kaylan Williams of Cedar Rapids. Both Sager and Williams were pronounced dead at the accident scene.
The Clarion Goldfield Dows school superintendent Jared Carter Saturday afternoon on social media offered condolences to its Principal Brian Williams and the family after Friday’s accident.