A deputy was injured and a firefighter killed Thursday after a high-speed chase ended in a fatal wreck in northern Greenville County, authorities said.
North Greenville firefighter Jordan Barry Howard, 30, of Marietta, was on his motorcycle heading to work at about 7:30 a.m. when he was struck head-on by a Ford pickup, Deputy Coroner Kent Dill said.
Sheriff Steve Loftis said a deputy was initially investigating a report of a stolen truck at TD's Express Mart on West Blue Ridge Drive earlier Thursday morning.
When the deputy arrived, he found two trucks parked end to end. A suspect in one of the trucks immediately began driving toward the deputy, who was pinned against a concrete wall with nowhere to go, Loftis said.
Loftis said the deputy pulled out his gun and fired several shots into the truck. One bullet shattered the windshield, but the truck kept going, hitting the deputy in the lower body.