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NATCHEZ—The overnight manhunt for a person who first hit a parked Adams County Sheriff’s Office patrol vehicle at Susie B. West apartments and fled was unsuccessful.

However, Adams County Sheriff Travis Patten said his investigators do have a suspect, whose name he will not release until they are certain the suspect was the vehicle’s driver.

At approximately 9 p.m. Thursday, a suspect hit a parked sheriff’s deputy’s vehicle at Susie B. West apartments and fled the scene. Natchez Police officers gave chase into the county when the suspect crashed his vehicle into a light pole and fled into a wooded area near the intersection of Lower Woodville and Saragossa roads.

The crash caught the light pole and vehicle on fire. Natchez Fire firefighters responded to battle the subsequent blaze. Southwest Electric Association workers responded by repairing a downed power line.

Sheriff’s deputies and Natchez Police officers searched the wooded area through the night to no avail.

Patten said that the Natchez Police Department is handling the hit-and-run portion of the incident. ACSO deputies are investigating the suspect’s crash into the light pole and fleeing the scene.

“We have a pretty good idea of who this person is, but we want to investigate further to make certain he was the driver,” Patten said.