Taken into custody: Beloit police arrest Terence Doddy in connection with two deaths in Illinois
BELOIT (WITI/AP) — Police in southeastern Wisconsin have arrested a man wanted in connection with two homicides in northern Illinois.
Beloit police say they arrested the 36-year-old Friday morning, July 4th after a high-speed chase in Rock County.
Authorities say Terence Doddy led Illinois and Wisconsin law enforcement officials on a high-speed chase -- crossing the border from Illinois into Wisconsin -- at times barreling down the road at more than 100 miles per hour.
The chase began after an Illinois State Trooper saw Doddy on Friday morning near South Beloit.
Police had to use stop sticks to stop him.
"Mr. Doddy's vehicle struck those stop sticks, lost control, left the roadway and came to a rest at some trees," a law enforcement official said.
The man is a suspect in the killings of 44-year-old Tonya Bargman and 37-year-old Todd Hansmeier.
Illinois State Police say Bargman was killed Tuesday at a rest stop near Paw Paw in north-central Illinois.
They say surveillance video showed a man attacking the Monticello, Illinois, woman as she left a restroom
Tonya Bargman
Hansmeier was an insurance salesman from Rockford, Illinois -- and Doddy's co-worker.
He was found dead of head and neck injuries Monday at a Rockford business.
"The perpetrator was apparently intending to destroy evidence and to destroy the evidence by pouring an accelerant -- in this case gasoline, on the body," a law enforcement official said.
Police in Rockford issued a warrant for Doddy's arrest after Hansmeier's body was found.
Todd Hansmeier
Officials say Hansmeier's death could have been over a drug deal.
Authorities say Doddy was driving Bargman's car when he was taken into custody.
Doddy was taken to the hospital for treatment of non life-threatening injuries suffered in the crash that ended the high-speed chase.
When he is released from the hospital, he will be held in the Rock County Jail until he is extradited to Illinois.
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