Suspect in Lake Travis double homicide is dead after Mississippi police chase
PIKE COUNTY, Miss. (KXAN) — Randall Lee Burrows, the suspect in Wednesday night’s double homicide near Lake Travis, is dead following a police chase in Pike County, Mississippi.
Deputies say Burrows shot himself in a field just outside of the town of Summit. Law enforcement is not aware of any connections he had to Mississippi.
At around 4:33 p.m. Friday, a tag reader registered Randall Lee Burrows’ license plate, according to KXAN sister station WJTV.
The U.S. Marshal’s Service with the Mississippi Highway Patrol located Burrows in his white Ford Escape and pursued him, ending up in Summit, not far from the border with Louisiana. The Travis County Sheriff’s Office said he ran seven cars off the highway, drove into a field, had a very short standoff with the highway patrol, and then held a firearm to his head.