High speed chase leads to 2 arrests

After responding to sounds of a car accident in Bloomington early Sunday morning, police discovered one of the vehicles involved had been hit by a bullet.\nBloomington Police Department officer Tracy Headley was in the area of 10th Street and College Avenue at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday when she heard the sound of a loud crash, said Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from a police report. Headley determined the sound came from the area of 10th Street and Walnut Street, but when she arrived at the intersection, witnesses told her they had seen two cars crash into each other then head northbound on Walnut Avenue at high speeds.\nHeadley stopped one of the vehicles several minutes later at 17th Street and Willis Drive, according to the report. The vehicle's rear passenger tire was flat, and police later determined it had been hit with a bullet.\nThe driver, Dave W. Reed, 21, was arrested on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident, according to the report. A Breathalyzer test determined Reed's blood alcohol content was .13 at the time.\nOfficers later discovered the other vehicle involved parked at 17th Street and Maple Street. The driver, Joshua S. Smith, 23, told police that Reed changed lanes and struck his vehicle while they were going north on Walnut Street, Drake said. Smith told officers he chased Reed and then shot his back rear passenger tire out with a .40 caliber handgun, according to the report.\nPolice believe the bullet went through the tire, the wheel well, the backseat and then through the bottom of a cooler sitting in the backseat, where the bullet was found.\nOfficers cited Smith for firing a handgun within city limits, Drake said, but are requesting he be charged by the Monroe County Prosecutor's Office with criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.