Deputy Killed In Chase

{Morgantown, West Virginia}...Forty-one year old Sgt. Michael Todd May of the Monongalia County Sheriff's Department in West Virginia died Saturday morning while pursuing a hit-and-run suspect across Pennsylvania state lines. May, a 10-year veteran of his department, was pronounced dead at Ruby Memorial Hospital in West Virginia. Around 1:00 A.M., West Virginia State Police were called to investigate a hit and run crash along Easton Hill Road near Morgantown where police say 35-year-old Jerod Allen Green of Morgantown had struck another car with his truck. Granville Police spotted Green travelling along Route 100 and assisted Monongalia County Deputies in conducting a reaffic stop. Green, who appeared to be intoxicated, refused to get out of his vehicle and sped away. Police chased Green into Pennsylvania. Green then turned east toward I-79 and entered the highway heading southbound back toward Morgantown. Sgt. May was parked along the highway inside the Pennsylvania state line, in front of the pursuit with the goal of getting in ahead of Green to slow him down and end the chase. However, as the chase approached, Green slammed into Sgt. May’s cruiser.