A man from Bolivar has been charged following a chase last Friday that ended in the serious injuries of a Greene County deputy.

Seth Hay has been charged with three counts of first-degree assault. One of those assault charges includes serious physical injury or a special victim.

Hay has charges of second-degree kidnapping and resisting arrest.

According to a probable cause statement, Greene County deputies responded to a home along Highway WW Friday, December 11, regarding domestic assault.

The statement says Hay told the caller he would stab her if she didn’t buy him a gun to take his own life.

Around 8:30 a.m. on that Friday morning, the caller told deputies Hay was in her car and deputies saw the vehicle with two people inside near the residence.

A chase ensued when deputies attempted to stop the vehicle.

The chase started on northbound Highway WW and then onto Highway 13. The statement says Hay reached speeds over 100 miles per hour.

That chase led into Polk County and other law enforcement agencies responded to help in pursuit.

Spikes thrown by a Polk County deputy on Highway 13 near Highway Y missed the car. The statement says Hay drove around the sticks and almost hit the deputy.

Hay eventually turned around and then started traveling southbound on Highway 13. Sticks at the intersection of HIghway 13 and 559th road connected with the car but Hay continued and passed more vehicles, and kept traveling southbound on 13.

Spike strips were being deployed at Highway 13 and 565th road by Greene County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Steve Westbrook. The statement says Hay’s vehicle crossed the white line of 13 and began traveling towards Lt. Westrook’s vehicle, which was not marked but its lights were on.

The statement says Hay hit the vehicle with Lt. Westbrook on the other side of it, launching him nearly 50 feet in the air, and Lt. Westbrook suffered multiple broken bones and head trauma.

Hay’s car was then disabled following the crash.

Hay and the passenger in the car was taken into the custody shortly after. The passenger in the car told investigators Hay approached him in an effort to buy methamphetamine, which the passenger took him to buy some. The two then went to Hay’s home. The passenger told authorities when Hay saw deputies and fled, he wouldn’t pull over.

The passenger told investigators Hay ate the rest of the meth that was purchased by the two earlier that day.

The passenger said in an interview with detectives, that when Hay’s vehicle was spike stripped, Hay spotted a black car on the side of the road and said “this is it” and then collided with the black vehicle.

In an interview with detectives, Hay’s story was similar to the passenger’s, saying he met the other man, whom he had never met before and purchased meth with him.

Hay told authorities upon arriving back to his home, with the passenger in the car, he saw GSCO vehicles and fled from deputies. The statement says Hay admitted to eating all the methamphetamine remaining.

According to the statement, Hay told detectives he hit the spike strips and did not want to go back to jail. He believed he would have been shot by deputies. When detectives asked Hay if his intention of hitting the car Lt. Westbrook was behind was to kill himself, the statement says Hay nodded his head up and down. Hay continued to talk about how he did not want to go to jail and lost everything.

Over the weekend, the Greene County Sheriff’s Office said Lt. Westbrook was in good spirit following the crash.