Two convicted felons are in custody after leading authorities on a high speed chase, crashing into two vehicles, including a Savannah-Chatham police car, and then leading police on a foot chase through a Savannah college campus and neighborhood Sunday night.
Derrick Andre McDaniel, 29, of Garden City, and Jawyann Porchei Pringle, 29, of a Dunwoody Drive address were captured by officers from multiple agencies off Hopeland Drive in the Windsor Forest neighborhood about 7:15 p.m. Sunday, said Julian Miller, police spokesman.
They were in a Chevrolet truck driven by McDaniel that had led Liberty County Sheriff’s Office deputies and a Midway police officer on a high-speed chase on Interstate 95 and collided with one vehicle at U.S. 17 and Ga. 204 and a metro police car at Science Drive and Abercorn Street.
The collision with the police car, that was not involved in the pursuit, sent the truck out of control, eventually overturning multiple times on the lawn of Armstrong Atlantic State University.
The two men ran across the campus and through a fence to the Windsor Forest neighborhood, where Pringle was apprehended by Liberty County, Armstrong Atlantic and metro police officers after being Tazed by a Liberty County deputy. McDaniel was apprehended by a metro officer.
Inside or near the truck, police found two handguns, including one reported stolen in 2011, cell phones, drug-related items, cash and other suspect items, Miller said.
Two metro officers in the patrol car that was struck were transported to a hospital for treatment. They were treated and released.
McDaniel was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, theft by receiving a stolen firearm, obstruction by fleeing, loitering and prowling, reckless driving, hit-and-run, and driving with a suspended license.
Pringle was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and felony obstruction and faces a previously issued warrant by the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office for conspiracy to commit a crime.
McDaniel was released from prison in February 2011 after serving two years of a four-year sentence for burglary, fleeing to elude, false imprisonment, obstruction and robbery.
Pringle had served prison time from September 2003-January 2004, February 2005-October 2005 and December 2008 – August 2009 for drug charges and terroristic threats.
The investigation is continuing and additional charges may be added.