MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A car chase in Midtown Thursday evening ended in a crash that left one person dead and one person hospitalized is raising questions on whether or not the pursuit was necessary.

Mobile County Sheriff’s deputies were searching for 43-year-old Joel Fuller, who was facing multiple domestic violence charges and had allegedly been sending threatening messages to the victim for weeks.

Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch is defending the decision to pursue the suspect.

“For those who are critical of it in this particular situation, put yourself in the place of someone with a sister or a daughter who's been repeatedly threatened, threatened to be killed, and all that, and we break off the chase, and then later that night, that happens,” Burch said.

Deputies spotted Fuller in

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