Kinsman man killed by police after chase on Route 11

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Police say a Kinsman man who led them on a chase down state Route 11 Friday and who was shot and killed by police had a handgun, but they did not say whether he pointed it at police of if he fired any shots.

Cody Dempsey, 25, was killed by police after the car he was driving was forced to stop on state Route 11 southbound just south of the Tibbetts-Wick Road exit in a chase that began on state Route 11 near state Route 305 about 11 a.m.

Lt, Brian Holt, commander of the Ohio State Highway Patrol Southington post, said at a press conference late Friday afternoon that Dempsey refused to stop for Trumbull County Sheriff’s deputies who tried to pull him over and only stopped after his car hit a series of spike strips deployed by a trooper near the exit.

He then encountered troopers, deputies and officers from the Weathersfield Police Department, who had joined the chase as well, and brandished a semiautomatic handgun before he was shot, Holt said. Dempsey died of his wounds at St. Elizabeth Health Center at about noon, Holt said.

Read more on the chase and shooting in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.