EXCLUSIVE DASH CAM: Chase, deadly crash video released

Published On: Dec 11 2012 01:54:43 PM EST
Updated On: Dec 11 2012 02:27:20 PM EST

Upstate deputies have released the dash cam video of a chase that ended in a deadly crash. FULL STORY

The Anderson County Sheriff's Office has released the dash cam video of a chase that ended in a deadly crash.

Anderson County Sheriff John Skipper said that deputies were responding to a report of a suspicious person near a school on Dec. 4, and while on their way, they spotted a black Mustang on Flat Rock Road that matched the description of a stolen car they had been looking for over the previous week.

Skipper said the deputies tried to pull the Mustang over, but the driver sped off.

Skipper said the deputy realized the speed of 60 mph or more was too fast for a curve that was coming up, so he backed off. 

Skipper said when the deputy rounded the curve, he found that the driver of the Mustang had lost control of the vehicle and it had left the road and flipped into a wooded area on Middleton Road.

The driver, 27-year-old Brian Corey Madden, was thrown from the Mustang and died at the scene, the coroner said.

Madden’s passenger, identified by troopers as Tasha Foster, 26, was also thrown from the car and was airlifted to the hospital with serious injuries.

Coroner Greg Shore said he thinks clothes found in the trees at the scene of the wreck were there because Madden was attempting to change his clothes while driving in hopes of making it more difficult to identify him if he was caught. Madden, who was wearing only underwear when the vehicle crashed, died of blunt-force trauma, Shore said.

On Tuesday, Anderson County sheriff’s spokesman Chad McBride said, "We do chase, depending on the circumstance, depending on the nature of the incident, what the crime was, whether it was a stolen vehicle, or a crime that deems a certain level of severity then the officer can chase."

"During a pursuit situation, an officer is in direct radio contact with a supervisor throughout the whole chase, or throughout the pursuit, and basically that supervisor is looking for certain factors.  If he deemed the pursuit too dangerous then he would call off the officer at that time," he said.

McBride said that there are danger factors that would stop a chase including high speeds, speeds too high for the road they're on, the weather, the traffic congestion on the roads or if there are a lot of pedestrians in the area

"they all play a part into the factors that the supervisor is looking for to decide and determine whether or not he's going to allow the pursuit to continue."

The Highway Patrol is investigating the crash, so McBride could not discuss any specifics about the case.

"Policy and procedure issues will be reviewed to make sure the deputy was in line and I believe at this point they feel pretty comfortable, and confident that he was, but of course all that is under review with both agencies," he said.

The deputy involved in chase is back on regular duty, McBride said.

"As police officers, we see a lot of tragic things like this, and we hate to see that kind of stuff, but it's something that we have to deal with and move on to the next incident," he said.

Linda Mullinax, Madden's mother, said, "This chasing stuff should be outlawed. I know my youngin' wasn't a saint. He did things and the law was looking for him, but you don't have to kill somebody."

"Corey was a very misunderstood person. He did a lot of things wrong. He was on drugs. We begged him and begged him to get off the drugs. I didn't want him on the drugs, but he didn't deserve to die by a bunch of county cops chasing him," she said.

Madden was married and had three children.

"He didn't deserve what happened to him. Corey was a good man. He loved his girls. He loved me and he loved his babies' mama," said Madden's wife, Mika.

News 4 has learned that Foster was a friend of Madden.

The Highway Patrol is investigating the wreck.


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