An attempted traffic stop Wednesday evening in Baton Rouge led to a two-minute police chase, a hastily ditched illegally modified gun, and a crash that killed a 24-year-old woman.

Janae Fieldings, 24, died shortly after 10 p.m. when her Honda Accord crashed into the brick back wall of the Fast Stop convivence store on North Foster Drive while she was fleeing police, according to a news release from the Baton Rouge Police Department.

Fieldings was pronounced dead at the scene, and two other occupants in the vehicle were transported to a hospital with injuries.

Police said the pursuit began on Lobdell Avenue in the Melrose East neighborhood, when Fieldings allegedly refused to stop for an officer trying to pull her over and sped away.

During the brief pursuit, which took the Honda and BR

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