GERMANTOWN, Wis. — A man was arrested after allegedly stabbing a mother and her 15-year-old daughter in Germantown and leading police on a high-speed chase that ended in a dramatic crash in Portage, Indiana.
The suspect fled the scene in a semi-truck after the stabbings at an apartment complex on Legend Avenue off Mequon Road, according to Germantown police.
"I'm a little worried. Yeah I am, now that makes me worried," Brenda Caruso, a neighbor in the complex, said.
Residents of the apartment complex described their neighborhood as typically quiet and safe.
"We've lived in this complex for 33 years," another neigbhbor, Mary Ann Schmies, said.
Watch: Germantown stabbing victim's neighbors describe area as 'quiet and safe'
"Sad. Very sad. And I know the mother and she's a lovely woman," Schimes added.
According to police, GPS tracking on the semi-truck helped authorities locate the suspect at a gas station in Gary, Indiana. When officers attempted to apprehend him, he fled, leading to a high-speed pursuit that ended in a crash in Portage, Indiana.
Witness Shelby Mustang Lomax from Portage, Indiana, captured video of the chase, which shows the driver swerving off an overpass and crashing onto railroad tracks below.
"That's terrible, it's crazy. I mean that is crazy," Caruso said.
A police report from Gary Police Department states the driver was "intentionally trying to hit police vehicles using the semi truck as a weapon."
"I've never seen nothing like that around here. That's terrible," Caruso said.
TMJ4 News spoke to the teenage victim by phone. She confirmed that the man arrested in Indiana is known to her and her mother. She said both she and her mother are recovering in the hospital.
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