A man this morning stabbed an ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend to death, kidnapped his toddler son, then crashed his vehicle into a police car in Porter, Ind., killing himself and the boy, according to police.
The stabbing occurred at about 12:50 a.m. in an apartment building in the 5900 block of Old Porter Road in Portage when the man arrived at the home of an ex-girlfriend and found her with another man, police said.
The man, who police said recently was released from prison, argued with and stabbed the other man, who later was pronounced dead. He then fled, taking his two-year-old son with him.
The woman was unhurt and called police. At about 1:30 a.m. a police officer spotted the man's Buick Regal in Furnessville headed east on U.S. Highway 12, according to a statement by Indiana State Police Sgt. Ann Wojas. The man turned his car around and headed back west on U.S. Highway 20, the statement said.
Soon several police cars were trailing the man and his son and police set up a roadblock and laid down a spike strip at Beam Street, about six miles east of where the stabbing occurred.
The Buick ran over the spikes, then crashed into a marked Porter County Sheriff's deputy's squad car, state police said. The deputy was not in the car during the collision.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His son was taken to Porter Hospital in Portage, where he too was pronounced dead a short time later. Authorities have released the names of neither the men nor the boy.