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Kansas Man That Caused Accident While Fleeing Police Charged With First Degree Murder

(AP) – A Topeka man who allegedly caused an accident that killed a man while he fled from police has been charged with felony first-degree murder.

Shawnee County prosecutors on Tuesday charged 33-year-old Kody Shane Godfrey, who they say caused a four-vehicle accident Saturday in Topeka that killed 22-year-old Jordan Dodgen of Shawnee.

Topeka police say Godfrey sped off when an officer tried to make a routine traffic stop. The pursuit lasted only about 30 seconds before Godfrey’s pickup hit cars at a Topeka intersection, killing Dodgen.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Godfrey was booked into the Shawnee County Jail after being released from a hospital. He’s being held on $1 million bond.

Online court records do not indicate that Godfrey has a lawyer.

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