HILLIARD, Ohio — A hit-skip crash last Thursday in Hilliard led to a series of escalating events, ending with a suspect spitting on officers and claiming to have sexually transmitted diseases, according to police.

It began around 4 p.m. near Cemetery Road and Westbrook Drive when a Jeep abruptly stopped at a green light and was rear-ended, Hilliard police said. The driver, later identified as Grant Wachtelhausen, left the scene and continued driving.

Traffic camera footage shows Wachtelhausen driving his Jeep onto a sidewalk. Police say shortly afterward, he was seen walking into traffic before getting back into his vehicle and heading toward J.W. Reason Elementary School just a few blocks away.

Body-worn camera video and police accounts indicate Wachtelhausen entered the school’s parki

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