Five states in five days; Jared Stone's long run from the law ended with gun shots in Nebraska and a standoff in Wyoming. Stone's long-distance journey took him from a Sioux Falls crime scene, to a jail cell in Wyoming.
Police say after the Friday night shooting that killed 27-year-old Baptise White Eyes in Sioux Falls, suspect Jared Stone, his getaway driver and two other women fled to Worthington, Minnesota where they checked into the Super 8 motel early Saturday morning.
The group stayed in a Luverne motel on Saturday night.
Court papers show they then headed to Flandreau on Sunday where Stone bought a car and headed to the Twin Cities.
And that's just the beginning. Early Tuesday morning, he turned up in Plymouth County, Iowa.
Later that day, his vehicle turned up along Interstate 90 near Presho.
Wednesday, the U.S. Marshals received word that Stone was at a residence in Mission, but Stone had already left for Nebraska by the time marshals showed up.
Investigators say Stone then led troopers on a high-speed pursuit through Nebraska, firing at least three times at them.
Once Stone crossed into the Wyoming border on Interstate 80 last night, troopers were waiting with stop sticks.
Jared Stone's flight from justice that began in Sioux Falls covered hundreds of miles and involved a wide range of officers from the local, state and federal levels to catch him.
"Just the teamwork that's involved is huge and it's a credit to all the law enforcement agencies involved in this event," Sgt. David Wagener of the Wyoming Highway Patrol said.
Stone, who was driving a 1988 Oldsmobile as he crossed the border from Nebraska into Wyoming, ran over spikes on the interstate set out by law enforcement to bring the dangerous pursuit to an end.
"After that stop-stick deployment, he continued for about 10 miles further west from Pine Bluffs and the state line, he had lost multiple tires at that point," Wagener said.
Unable to drive any farther, Stone sat in his car for about 25 minutes. Since Stone was already suspected in the deadly Sioux Falls shooting and had allegedly fired upon Nebraska troopers, authorities in Wyoming were careful about how they approached him.
"In a situation like that, we would conduct what's referred to as a felony stop, where's it's obviously not a situation where we would approach the vehicle, just give commands and maintain visual observations until we can get that individual into custody," Wagener said.
The man considered armed and dangerous and on the loose for nearly a week surrendered peacefully.
Wyoming authorities closed all lanes of Interstate 80 once the high-speed pursuit entered that state. The interstate was closed for about 45 minutes.
One of Stone's alleged accomplices, Mercedes Red Bear of Sioux Falls, was in court Thursday. She's accused of paying for the Luverne motel where Stone stayed, under her name. She's charged with harboring and assisting a fugitive.
Police are still looking for another suspected accomplice, 31-year-old Desiree Sully.