CONYERS, Ga. — Authorities are looking for a person who they said stole a mortuary van and led police on a chase Wednesday afternoon.
According to Kim Lucas of Conyers Police, officers said workers were trying to unload a body from the mortuary van at the crematorium when a suspect sped off in the vehicle. They said the body slid out of the back of the van in the parking lot. Those at the site were able to secure the body.
Officers said law enforcement pursued the suspect in a chase that expanded from Conyers city limits to DeKalb County. The vehicle was disabled just before Wesley Chapel Road on I-20 after the driver allegedly hit multiple cars. They said a tire blew out on the van.
The suspect then allegedly got out of the vehicle and ran in to the wooded area between Panola Road and Wesley Chapel Road.
Other agencies helped search for the suspect. However, he was not located.
The 23-year-old man is now wanted for several felonies.