A video showing the dramatic police chase in Utah that led to a hospital nurse refusing to draw blood from a patient, leading to her arrest, was released.
Alex Wubbels, a nurse for the burn center at the University of Utah hospital, was arrested by a police officer in July after telling him that she wouldn’t draw blood from a patient, as he was unable to give consent. The video of the incident has gone viral and received nationwide coverage.
The incident was the result of a high-speed chase, where the suspect is spotted swerving into a semi-truck head-on before it explodes into a ball of flames. The suspect was killed, and the semi driver was left with burns, Jalopnik reported.
The truck driver was Wubbels’s patient and was not a suspect in the police investigation. The driver of that semi-truck—Wubbels’s patient—was identified as William Gray of Rigby, Idaho, who is also a reserve police officer for the Rigby Police Department, Fox13 reported.
Rigby Police Chief Sam Tower released a statement praising Wubbels for protecting “Officer Gray’s rights as a patient and victim. Protecting the rights of others is truly a heroic act.”
“It is important to remember that Officer Gray is the victim in this horrible event, and that at no time was he under any suspicion of wrongdoing,” the statement reads.
