Drug Suspect Crashes Redstone Arsenal Gate, Kills Space Center Employee in Crash

by PEP | June 3, 2008 at 08:18 am | 338 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

This is a tragic story that leaves many questions--how did a woman fleeing a drug investigation manage to crash the gates at the high-security Redstone Arsenal in Alabama? Her high-speed flight wound up killing a Marshall Space Flight Center employee.

Redstone Arsenal military officers will investigate how a vehicle breached Gate 1 Friday during a high-speed chase with the Huntsville Police Department, and, although unrelated to the fatal chase, several gates will receive security improvements over the next month, the post'ssenior commander said Monday.

Maj. Gen. Jim Myles, Army Aviation and Missile Commandcommanding general, said an internal investigation would be conducted to find out how much warning gate guards were given during the lunch-time chase that ultimately crossed most of the arsenal and ended in a crash that killed one Marshall Space Flight Center worker and injured five other arsenal employees.