police say leroy brown jr. ran down ab officer with his car last night. he got away until he ran new castle county police. >> reporter: it started with a domestic dispute. he came down here to new castle across the road here and ended over here on this bench that's covered with evidence paint. the 28-year-old, police were called to 56 in southwest philly last night for a call that he had been in a domestic dispute and dragging a woman. >> by that time, the male had entered the van and proceeded at a high rate of speed in reverse striking one of the officers and dragging the officer several feet. >> hit brown, but was able to get out of his van. he and the woman and the four kids stole someone else's car and took off for his girlfriend's home. new castle police went there to find him and after a struggle an officer shot the suspect again. e he took off in a car ask hit a county police cruiser ask went into a park. two kids were still in the car a as this happened. become in philly. leroy brown is working to c console his family including his grand kids. >>

earlier there was an incident involving leroy brown jr. and there was a second confrontation at a nearby park and shooting and brown was transported to the hospital where he later died. it's believed he was involved in a confrontation in philadelphia with police. when people responded to reports of a man with a gun trying to abduct a woman. and the police officer shot at the driver. brown's family believes he may have been hit and wounded in the incident in philadelphia. the how and why he ends up here in newcastle county. it's believe he was trying to get to a girlfriend's house here but the details remain sketchy at this point in time. john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. lets switch live now to "action news" reporter jeanette reyes in southwest philadelphia where the chaos all started last night. >> reporter: well rick, the family is also asking a lot of questions this afternoon. they spoke exclusively to "action news" the mother saying it began with a nightmare from his son saying he was going to be killed after alleged

the family identified the man as 20-year-old leroy brown jr. and provided this photo of him and his parents spoke to "action news" a small time ago. >> he was trying to get away from police and was not the best kid on the block, in spite of the bad choices he made he was a good harted young man. >> the 40-year-old officer dragged in the philadelphia incidents is an eight year veteran of the department and he is expected to make a full recovery. >> the search continues this noon for a driver that took off following a police chase, it ended with a fiery collision on i-95 near philadelphia international airport at 1:00 this morning. it began when tinicum township police pulled the driver over for traffic violations and the driver took off with police in pursuit and the driver lost control and crashed near the enterprise rental car lot and he was last seen near the airport near the e and f parking garage area. >>> now they are searching for a judge that went missing s near his house. keysic just stopped hearing federal cases because of health issue

a man with a broken heart and without the money to bury his son leroy brown, jr., the 28-year-old killed in a scuffle with police in new castle county, delaware. the second of two clashes he had with cops in two states last night. >> i think they trigger happy. >> coach man's manor apartments in new castle county a police cruiser was rammed by another car all part of a struggle between brown and the officer who shot and killed him. police tell us they went to check on brown after he was shot by an officer in southwest philly but investigators say brown ran into a car to break away. a fight took place before the officer shot brown who crashed the car. he was later pronounced dead. for neighbors there, chaos. >> i heard the gunfire and i thought it was like a car back firing or something. i just didn't kno know what it . >> crazy. very crazy. >> reporter: a couple hours before the delaware scene, philly cops say they drove up to 56th and whitby on a call of a man with a gun trying to pull a woman out of a mini van. officers on scene say brown put the van in reverse and dragged a cop severa

this is a look at that driver, leroy brown jr. he fled to new castle where family members say police shot and killed him. >>> cheers and gratitude for a corrections officer held hostage for two days in a delaware prison. [ applause ] governor carney recognized joshua wilkinson during his address to the state legislaturd -- wilkinson's second public appearan appearance since being taken hostage at the vaughn correctional center in smyrna. lieutenant steve floyd was killed. the gno independent investigation into what led to that standoff. >>> a delaware county family remains in anguish a year after the murder of a loved one. >> yest marqueea benson's family made an emotional plea to find her killer. the 36-year-old frommish darby died in -- from upper darby died from a vicious attack. her family and police can't believe someone would do such a thing to a woman with such a bright future. >> this is our life from now until eternity. this is what we have to live with. >> this incident has left an empty not in our detective division. >>

according to family members, police were locking for 28-year-old leroy brown jr. he ran over an officer in his van as he was fleeing from a a domestic dispute at 56th streets in southwest philadelphia. he managed to get away and steal another car. that's when investigator says u he made his way to the apartment complex in delaware where he was shot and killed by police. we spoke to brown's father a short while ago. >> it's tough. >> the officer who killed brown is on medicine straightive leave. more details on this coming up at 6:00. >>> we're following developing story along the turnpike. a state trooper was involved in a deadly shooting at a service area. it happened just before 3:00 this afternoon at the molly service area in kran berry township. sources say the officer was not hurt. it is still not clear what led to shooting. >>> a suspected serial rapist is under arrest in delaware county. authorities say the 19-year-old attacked nine wimp. they say the attacks took place over three years dating back to when lee was 16. all but one happened within the city of

is a man with a broken heart and without the non bury his son leroy brown, jr., the 28-year-old killed in a scuffle with police in new castle county, delaware. the second of two clashes he had with cops in two states last night. >> i think they trigger happy. >> reporter: coach man's apartment manor apartments in news castle county where a police cruiser was rammed by another car a struggle between brown and the officer who shot and killed him. police tell us they went to check on brown after he was shot by an officer in southwest philly, but investigators say brown ran into a car to break away. a fight took place before the officer shot brown who crashed the car. he was later pronounced dead. for neighbors there, chaos. >> i heard the gunfire and i thought it was like a car back firing or something. i just didn't know what it was. >> crazy. very crazy. >> reporter: a couple hours before the delaware scene philly cops say they drove up to 56 and whitby on call of a man with a gun trying to pull a woman out of a mini van. officers on scene say brown put the van in reverse and dragged a

. >> reporter: emotional leroy brown, sr. trying to fine money to bury his son 28-year-old low roy brown, jr., killed in a violent classes clash with new castle county, delaware, cops in just one of two runs in he had with police in two states. >> it's just horrible. it's just horrible. >> reporter: it happened at the coach man's manor apartments in news castle county a police cruiser was rammed by another car that crashed in a park. all in a struggle that officials say involved an officer shooting brown a father of three kids between eight and 12. >> police say they went to check on brown after he was shot by an officer in southwest philadelphia but brown ran to a car to get away. he was then shot by the new castle county officer after a fight and crashed the car. he was later pronounced dead. >> i heard a lot of shooting going on. really loud and everything and it kind of like scared me. >> they toll us to go back inside, um tox stay in our apartment and so we did pretty much for the entire night. >> reporter: two hours bef