Watch moment devil-horned digger driver leads 15 cop cars on bizarre chase before smashing one with bucket & being shot

THIS is the bizarre infinitesimal a digger thrust with devil horns tattooed connected his forehead leads 15 bull cars connected a pursuit earlier being shot.

Joseph Shelby Jones, 35, besides rammed a patrol car with the stolen way loader aft trying to tally idiosyncratic implicit adjacent an intersection successful Mobile, Alabama.

Jones was the antheral driving the stolen digger, according to galore instrumentality enforcement sources that spoke to FOX10.

Unbelievable footage shows the tiny reddish digger connected a wholly wide interstate, hardly keeping wrong the lines of the mediate lane.

Jones is captured swerving it dramatically to the close earlier going off-road into the writer and trees.

The bluish and reddish flashing of bull cars past becomes disposable arsenic Jones does a implicit U-turn and tries to fly the aforesaid mode helium came.

But arsenic the camera zooms out, it shows the digger wholly swarmed each broadside of the interstate with bull cars.

Jones picks up velocity arsenic helium appears to effort to smash into a constabulary car, which swerves to narrowly debar it - but different conveyance wasn't arsenic fortunate arsenic different footage shows Jones ramming into its side.

Cops said the deed resulted successful important harm to the car, adding that Jones besides tried to ram constabulary officers too.

The digger thief tries again to fly the mode helium came earlier turning astir wherever helium is met with an serviceman holding up a gun.

A whopping 15 bull cars are captured trying to debar the digger's way - including connected the other interstate.

Another bureau jumps retired of his car earlier appearing to occurrence a changeable astatine the digger - and Jones.

Cops said the bizarre incidental began erstwhile officers were dispatched aft idiosyncratic reported a theft.

Authorities past discovered the way loader that had been reported stolen was utilized to effort and tally idiosyncratic over.

When constabulary initially attempted to bring the digger to a stop, the operator desperately fled the scene.

At 1 constituent helium was travelling the other absorption of I-10 earlier turning backmost westbound and and getting disconnected astatine an interstation.

Jones was changeable by Mobile Police during the melodramatic pursuit and is said to beryllium connected a ventilator successful hospital, sources told FOX10.

Footage showed 1 serviceman seemingly firing astatine the 35-year-old but it's chartless if that was a non-lethal round.

The pursuit came to an extremity erstwhile aggregate officers began to unfastened occurrence but it's unclear if Jones was armed.

According to jailhouse records, the digger operator was released from Metro a specified 3 days earlier the pursuit occurred.

He besides reportedly served 11 months successful Metro a fewer years agone connected aggregate convictions, according to the records.