Vehicle chase through East Texas began with fight

The Associated Press

HENDERSON - Two women were arrested after authorities say a fight in Longview escalated to a vehicle chase that ended with their vehicle ramming another and causing it to crash about 30 miles south near Henderson on Thursday morning.

Jessica DeShae Medford, 22, and Brittonie Annett Taylor, 18, both of Longview, were each charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a weapon and one count of felony failure to stop and render aid. Their bonds total $225,000 each.

Both Medford and Taylor remained in jail on Thursday. A jail official said neither had an attorney listed.

All six occupants of the car that crashed were taken to hospitals, and officials said in a story for Thursday's online edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph that several are in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.

The probable cause affidavit in the case stated that a victim told authorities that her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend - Medford - was chasing them.

Rusk County District Attorney Investigator William Brown said that after the crash, Medford and Taylor fled the scene and were arrested by Rusk County deputies a short time later.

Brown said he was told the victims tried to get help in Kilgore, but no one answered the door at the police station. He said that because of how the building is set up, no one knew they were there.

"It was no fault of the Kilgore Police Department," he said.

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