Fatal Encounters

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Rachel Ann Yost

Name: Rachel Ann Yost
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Race: European-American/White
Date: 07/14/2007
Location: US 54
Eureka, Kansas, 67045
County: Greenwood
Agency: Greenwood County Sheriff's Office
Cause of Death: Vehicle
Intended Use of Force: Vehic/Purs
Media summary: Rachel Ann Yost was a passenger on a motorcycle that crashed while being chased by deputies. According to the department, the 2007 Suzuki motorcycle, which left Eureka at a high rate of speed after deputies tried to stop it, crashed at around 11:45 p.m. Investigators reportedly didn't realize there had been a passenger on the motorcycle until the driver, Jacob Jackson, 23, asked about her as his blood was being drawn. Yost's body was found in tall grass nearby the crash scene, about seven miles east of Eureka.
Unique ID: 6332

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