AUSTIN, Texas - A man is now facing multiple charges after Austin police say he ran over a bicyclist with a stolen truck, then led police on a seven-minute, nearly seven-mile-long chase in East Riverside over the weekend.
What we know:
34-year-old Jose Alberto Torres has been charged with:
1 count of second-degree felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
1 count of third-degree felony evading arrest/detention with a vehicle
1 count of state-jail felony unauthorized use of a vehicle
The charges stem from an incident early Sunday morning in the 2300 block of the westbound service road of E. SH 71, where an auto-ped crash had been reported, according to court paperwork.
When police arrived, they found a bicyclist in "significant pain" with fresh abrasions to his knee caps and h