Posted on Tue, Jan. 13, 2009
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Police shot and killed a Ewing man following a car chase Monday night on Route 1 in central New Jersey.
The incident began about 11 p.m. when a South Brunswick police officer tried to cite 23-year-old Jacob Olson for speeding, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. Olson refused to stop and rammed the officer's cruiser with his 2007 Jeep Compass.
The chase ended after the collision, with both vehicles in an intersection about five miles northeast of Princeton.
The first officer was joined by a second as Olson exited his vehicle with a knife. He was shot by both police officers after he refused to drop the weapon and continued to advance on them, authorities said.
Olson was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he was pronounced dead early today.
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