North Carolina trooper killed in wreck during car chase
ELKIN— A North Carolina’s Highway Patrol trooper has died in a wreck as he chased a car that fled a traffic checkpoint. Authorities say 24-year-old Trooper Samuel Newton Bullard died Monday in a wreck on Interstate 77 in Yadkin County.The chase began when a car refused to stop for Bullard and Trooper P.E. Ellis, who were conducting a driver license checkpoint.The troopers pursued the car but Ellis soon realized he couldn’t see Bullard behind him. When […]
