3 teens arrested in south Louisville following police chase

LOUISVILLE, Ky (WDRB) -- Three teenagers are in custody following a police chase early Thursday morning.

According to LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell, it started at 2 a.m. Sept. 26 when officers were sent on a trouble run to a house in the 6500 block of Price Lane. Mitchell says that's where the homeowner told officers "he interrupted a break-in to his vehicle."

"I walked in front of the truck and 'boom boom' and he had fired two rounds at me," said the homeowner who asked not to be identified. "He was trying to hit me. Lets put it this way, he aimed exactly where I would have been if I had been stupid enough to come around the wrong side of the truck."

In a written statement, Mitchell said one of the suspects "allegedly fired shots at the victim and fled from the scene." A short time later, an officer noticed a vehicle with several people inside parked at McNeely Lake Park. The officer approached the vehicle, believing some of the people matched the description of the suspects given by the victim on Price Lane.

Mitchell said the vehicle took off with the three suspects inside. Police chased the vehicle into Bullitt County and back into Jefferson County. The chase ended on South Park Road near I-65 and Minors Lane around 4 a.m., and all three suspects were arrested.

Mitchell said police arrested three people in total. Two of those suspects have been identified as 19-year-old Nathan Lowe and 18-year-old Gage Harris. Both were booked in Louisville Metro Corrections. Both were charged with fleeing or evading police, criminal trespassing and tampering with physical evidence. Police say a gun was thrown out of the car during the chase but recovered by officers.

"Peace of mind? No. Because if they're teenagers unfortunately they'll be right back out on the street," said the homeowner.

Lowe was also charged with wanton endangerment of a police officer, resisting arrest, reckless driving and instructional permit violations.

"You're stealing okay that's one thing," the homeowner said. "It wasn't like someone was coming at them with a baseball bat or on top of him or anything."

The third suspect has not been identified. Mitchell said he was in his middle teens.