Update at 2:30 p.m.:
The Dallas County medical examiner has ruled that Noah Timmons death was a suicide caused by a gunshot to the head.
Update from Haley Thayer:
Police released affidavits at the end of this morning’s news conference detailing the charges against Noah Michael Timmons
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Timmons was accused of aggravated sexual assault against his friend’s 6-year-old daughter. According to an arrest warrant that officers were trying to serve when the suspect fled, he had been performing these acts for over two months before the victim told her mother.
The probable cause affidavit states that Timmons assaulted the girl on more than one occasion at his house and in the bathroom of the victim’s house, always during the day when the victim’s mother was at work.
The first-grader sat down with an interviewer from Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center to explain the details of the incidents and name Timmons as the abuser. The girl told the interviewer she finally told her mother “so Timmons would never do it again,” according to the affidavit.
Staff writer Haley Thayer contributed to this report:
Balch Springs police say last night’s dramatic chase up and down LBJ Freeway could have had far more tragic consequences than it did.
“The complexion of it changed obviously when [the suspect] started shooting at us,” Police Chief Ed Morris said during a news conference this morning. “It adds that much more danger to the citizens involved and the officers, too.
“We did not want to lose him.”
Noah Michael Timmons, a 26-year-old wanted on charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, was found dead in his pickup at the end of the chase, possibly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Timmons was wanted in connection with a case involving a 6-year-old child.
The two-hour chase wound north and south on LBJ and also along I-30 after the suspect fled from officers trying to serve a warrant in the sex case.
In spite of the length of the chase and the fact that the suspect fired off nine shots at pursuing officers, officials feel fortunate the only reported damage was a single bullet hole in the cruiser of a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy. No injuries were reported, and no other vehicles were struck.
At the end of the chase, Timmons’ pickup and trailer rolled to a stop as sparks spun from its wheels, the tires flattened by spike strips thrown in his path. Morris said police approached but saw no movement coming from the pickup. Inside they found the suspect dead with a single gunshot wound.
Morris wasn’t ready to say that Timmons fired the fatal shot, but he did say that the pursuing officers did not open fire. The cause and manner of Timmons’ death is pending with the Dallas County medical examiner’s office.
“I’m just glad that no innocent victims were injured,” said the chief, tearing up at the thought of his officers being in harm’s way.
