DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Authorities have identified a driver who was shot by police as he tried to flee the scenes of several crashes in Davenport.
Television station KWQC reports that police identify the man as 48-year-old Nicholas Travis Warner, of Silvis, Illinois. Warner was listed in serious condition with a gunshot wound.
The shooting happened Wednesday night after officers were sent to check reports of two hit-and-run crashes. Authorities say the driver of a vehicle that matched a description of the hit-and-run vehicle sped away through a residential yard after being spotted by officers and soon struck another vehicle.
Police say an officer fired two shots at a nearby intersection during an attempt to apprehend the driver.
Warner was taken to a local hospital and then flown to an Iowa City hospital.
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