GCSD offers more info on incident near Worthington

According to the report by Deputy Christopher McDonald, who was the lead investigating officer on the scene, Jay Allen Hansen, 30, Worthington, was admitted to Bloomington Hospital's psychiatric unit for evaluation after running from police, threatening to kill himself and others, and fighting once he was apprehended.

Around 10:30 p.m., when officers were called to investigate an altercation along U.S. 231 near County Road 250 North, they learned that one of the subjects involved had fled the scene on foot.

In Wednesday's GCSD release, Deputy McDonald wrote that Hansen had called Chris Whitfield of Bloomfield and demanded that he bring him a coat he owned. Whitfield agreed and got into his pickup truck to head to Worthington to deliver the jacket. About halfway, the Whitfield vehicle ran out of gas near the former Carson-Firkins building and Hansen was contacted to bring fuel. When Hansen arrived, he jumped out of a woman's vehicle and she drove away.

McDonald wrote that Whitfield told officers that while he was putting the gas into his truck, Hansen demanded that he be taken to a home in Switz City to steal a firearm so he could seek revenge on several people. According to the release, Whitfield refused, and Hansen attempted to hit him with a beer bottle, and Whitfield ran away from Hansen.

According to the release, Whitfield was able to get back into his truck and leave the scene but Hansen jumped from a bank along the road into the truck bed, when it was going about 30 mph, and began trying to break the back window.

Hansen then managed to get the driver's door open near the junction of State Roads 54 and 57 while the truck was traveling at a high rate of speed. This caused Whitfield to hit a guardrail and blow out a rear tire. After slamming the door shut, Whitfield then turned north on S.R. 57 and tried to get Hansen out of the back of the truck by swerving while traveling about 80 mph.

McDonald wrote that Whitfield then pulled into the driveway of the Terry Koons home, and grabbed a tire iron from the porch. The two fought for a time before Hansen fled on foot.

To help in the search for Hansen, officers responded from several surrounding departments including the Indiana State Police, Bloomfield Police Department, Worthington Police Department, Linton Police Department, Lyons Police Department, Jasonville Police Department and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

During the search, Hansen called 911 and advised that he was not going back to jail and officers would have to shoot him.

After searching an area of several miles, dispatchers were able to trace the cell phone signal to triangulate his location and the GCSD reported Hansen was found at a wastewater treatment facility about four miles away.

According to the GCSD release, Hansen attempted to hang himself in the barbed wire as the police officers approached him.

As of Wednesday afternoon, no criminal charges have been filed by the prosecutor's office.