By Erin Matthews
The Salina Journal, Kan.
CHAPMAN, Kan. — A Manhattan man who had been on his knees being arrested by Dickinson County deputies Sunday afternoon got up and ran onto Interstate Highway 70 and was struck by a semitrailer, according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report.
Andre L. Murphy, 38, was reported to be in fair condition at Salina Regional Health Center Monday following the 2:50 p.m. Sunday incident about a mile west of the Chapman exit.
According to a KHP report, a semi driven by Jeffrey M. Jones, 47, of Gore, Okla., which was traveling east, was moving to the inside lane and slowing for emergency vehicles when Murphy stood up in the ditch and ran across both eastbound lanes of traffic in an effort to evade law enforcement.
Trooper Ben Gardner said troopers had been assisting during the arrest, but he had no additional information about why Murphy was being arrested. Dickinson County Undersheriff James Swisher could not immediately be reached Monday.
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