MEMPHIS, Tenn. - New details have emerged in a crash Monday afternoon that injured a Memphis Police (MPD) officer.

MPD said it all started just before 4:45 p.m., when an officer was chasing a homicide suspect behind the wheel of a black Hyundai Elantra. As the officer pursued the Elantra in an unmarked police car on Raleigh Lagrange Road, a third vehicle pulled in front of the officer — causing him to swerve and lose control, police said.

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The officer's car hit a utility pole and jumped a curb before running over a wooden fence and striking a tree in the area of Coleman Road and Austin Peay Highway, police said. MPD said the officer was rushed to a hospital with serious injuries but his condition has since been downgrade

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