Suspect Who Led Tuscaloosa Police on Wild Chase ID’d, Charged

A 25-year-old man has been identified and charged with two felonies and three misdemeanors after he led police in Tuscaloosa on a wild chase that ended in a wreck on I-20/59 Saturday evening.

A spokesperson for the Tuscaloosa Police Department said the suspect was Kaelyn Marquise Brunson-Garner, 25, who was wanted for failing to appear in court when officers attempted to pull him over just before 6 p.m. Saturday.

A few miles down the interstate, the man reportedly tried to crash through an ALDOT guardrail but badly wrecked his Chevy Malibu in the process. Brunson-Garner then allegedly ran across the eastbound lanes of the interstate and ran up a grassy hill leading to a residence behind Elliot Detailing Carwash on 40th Street, where he was intercepted by Tuscaloosa Police Officers who were able to arrest him there.

Brunson-Garner was checked for injuries himself before he was formally charged with felony leaving the scene, felony obstruction of justice by false identification, resisting arrest, third-degree domestic violence by reckless endangerment and attempting to elude. He was also being held on pre-existing warrants of attempting to elude and failure to appear in court on a charge of carrying a pistol without a permit.