Purse snatch chase ends in deadly I 95 crash
Victims identified include Cindy Church 22 five months pregnant and her 4 year old son Brett Church as suspects in robberies. A Chevrolet Nova crash with Trooper Armistead left him critically injured and unresponsive. Police pursued two suspects after purse snatching reports in Delaware and Aston. Interstate 95 closed for hours as multiple departments aided at the scene.
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Cindy Church
Brett Wayne Church
Clover Lane
Delaware County
Randall P. Armistead
Chichester Avenue
Gerald Pepper
Troop 1
Penny Hill
Pepper
Chester Township
Armistead
Elkton Road
Aston
Purse snatching in Aston leaves woman with fractured hip
Sara Jane Register, 59, of South Bent Lane, Aston, was dragged by a thief in a white car at Victory Cleaners near Valley View Shopping Center on Pennell Road. She suffered a broken hip and forehead cut and was hospitalized. Police linked the suspect to a later fatal head on crash involving a Delaware State Police car on I-95.
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Meg Diskin
Daily Times
Aston
Sara Jane Register
South Bent Lane
Victory Cleaners
Valley View
Pennell Road
Rite Aid
Register
James
Genevieve Bigger
Riddle Memorial Hospital
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Boothwyn
Scott Wisner
Chichester
Sacred Heart
Interstate 95
Penny State Police
IGA Shop N Law
Brandywine
Philadelphia Pike
Wilmington
Delaware
John Davison
Darley Road
Claymont
Davison
Pennsylvania
Ed Relyea
Sacred Heart Medical Center
New Castle County
Delaware State
James B. Hopkins
Spree
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