PUEBLO, Colo. – An FBI manhunt for three heavily armed siblings accused of shooting at a police officer in Florida and robbing a Georgia bank ended Wednesday with a police chase in Colorado, where shots were fired at officers before the suspects’ car rolled and crashed into a guard rail.
The mayhem capped a cross-country search for the two brothers and sister that authorities had warned were armed and extremely dangerous. Police recovered two AK-47 assault rifles and a MAC-11 pistol at the crash site.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m proud to say we won,” Pasco County, Fla., Sheriff Chris Nocco said. “We continuously said that if these three fugitives wanted a battle with law enforcement, we would win that battle. And that’s what happened today.”
Ryan Edward Dougherty, 21, and Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26, were arrested after the 20-mile chase on Interstate 25 that ended in Walsenburg, about 150 miles south of Denver.
Their sister, Lee Grace Dougherty, 29, was shot in the leg after she pointed a gun at a police officer while trying to escape on foot, authorities said.
The manhunt began Aug. 2 in Zephyrhills, Fla., when police Officer Kevin Widner tried to pull over a car for speeding. The occupants of
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