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On the evening of July 15, sheriff's deputies in Deschutes County, Oregon, attempted to stop Mark Timothy Nelson of Vancouver, Washington, for a traffic violation. Nelson fled at speeds up to 85 miles per hour. He kept going even after his pickup truck's tires were flattened by a spike strip in northern Klamath County.
At around midnight, the disabled vehicle left the road and plunged down a 50-foot embankment in Gilchrist, some 87 miles north of Klamath Falls. Nelson further evaded capture by fleeing on foot, so Oregon State Police contacted rancher David Crider and his wife, who live about half a mile from the site of the abandoned pickup, to let them know that a suspect was in the area.
As reported in the September 3 Klamath Falls Herald and News, "At around 4 a.m. [on July 16] the Criders heard someone ...