Suspect arrested in Olympia after high-speed chase

Bail was set at $7,500 for a man accused of fleeing police at high speeds in Lacey and Olympia early Monday morning.

Derrick T. Sumrall, 28, appeared Monday in Thurston County Superior Court before Judge Sam Meyer on one count of second-degree assault and one count of eluding a police vehicle. Arraignment was set for June 7.

Court documents give this account:

A Lacey police officer attempted to stop a domestic violence suspect, later identified as Sumrall, in the pre-dawn hours Monday after the suspect took off in a vehicle. The driver’s speed reached 85 mph as he fled police along South Bay and Lilly roads.

The driver was traveling about 70 mph westbound on State Avenue toward East Bay Drive when he drove over spikes set up by Olympia police.

A deputy was giving commands to the suspect when he accelerated toward the deputy and struck the patrol car that had a K-9 dog inside.

The driver was pulled from the vehicle by multiple officers. Sumrall was booked into jail about 2:45 a.m. Monday. Sumrall told officers that he lives in Colorado and plans to use his “cash to bail out and just go back home.”

At Monday’s court hearing, deputy prosecutors noted that Sumrall was from Colorado and had been in Washington for only two weeks.

This story was originally published May 24, 2016 at 2:20 PM with the headline "Suspect arrested in Olympia after high-speed chase."