Listen to Charleston Police dispatches from the incident that resulted in the deaths of Patrolman Jerry Jones and Brian Scott Good.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The events that ended with the deaths of two men, including a Charleston police officer, began as a fairly routine police chase, according to recordings of radio traffic released Friday by Kanawha County emergency officials.

Charleston police spotted Brian Scott Good, 31, heading south on Interstate 77 at 12:46 a.m. Sept. 12. Police were looking for Good from a hit-and-run incident earlier that evening in Charleston.

A short time later, Patrolman Christopher Burford, in Car 104, spotted Good in a gray flatbed pickup on Virginia Street, headed toward Greenbrier Street, and took up chase.

Burford called out on his radio, "104 [to] Metro, he's running!"

Within minutes, Burford was chasing Good and passenger Natasha Light up Greenbrier Street toward Good's home in a Milliken trailer park. "104 [to] Metro, we're 70 miles per hour," Burford called. "He just blew through the red light on Greenbrier!"

Soon, Patrolman Jerry Jones, 27, took over the lead position in the chase. "All other units stay back from the pursuit," Lt. Eric Johnson, Unit 116, told the other officers. "'07 [Jones] is going to run it; '04 [Burford] will call it." Having Burford handle all the radio traffic concerning the chase would allow Jones to concentrate on driving.

As speeds ramped up to as much as 85 mph while Good ran from police, though, supervisors warned the officers several times to break off the chase if things got too dangerous.

"Speeds are 85 on this road. Back it off; discontinue," area supervisor Sgt. Craig Dickinson, in Unit 118, called. "I'll take the lead up here; I know where he lives."

Jones responded: "18, I didn't copy. Did you say discontinue?"

Dickinson figured Good was heading back home. "Is it getting too dangerous up there?" he asked. "If it gets excessive up here, if it gets too dangerous, just back it down."

Jones replied that he thought it was safe enough to continue, and the chase went on.

Good did try to go back to his trailer, peeling off W.Va. 114 onto Mill Creek Road, but with officers hot behind him, he quickly changed his mind, turned around and raced back onto W.Va. 114 headed north toward Pinch and Quick.

Listen to Charleston Police dispatches from the incident that resulted in the deaths of Patrolman Jerry Jones and Brian Scott Good.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The events that ended with the deaths of two men, including a Charleston police officer, began as a fairly routine police chase, according to recordings of radio traffic released Friday by Kanawha County emergency officials.

Charleston police spotted Brian Scott Good, 31, heading south on Interstate 77 at 12:46 a.m. Sept. 12. Police were looking for Good from a hit-and-run incident earlier that evening in Charleston.

A short time later, Patrolman Christopher Burford, in Car 104, spotted Good in a gray flatbed pickup on Virginia Street, headed toward Greenbrier Street, and took up chase.

Burford called out on his radio, "104 [to] Metro, he's running!"

Within minutes, Burford was chasing Good and passenger Natasha Light up Greenbrier Street toward Good's home in a Milliken trailer park. "104 [to] Metro, we're 70 miles per hour," Burford called. "He just blew through the red light on Greenbrier!"

Soon, Patrolman Jerry Jones, 27, took over the lead position in the chase. "All other units stay back from the pursuit," Lt. Eric Johnson, Unit 116, told the other officers. "'07 [Jones] is going to run it; '04 [Burford] will call it." Having Burford handle all the radio traffic concerning the chase would allow Jones to concentrate on driving.

As speeds ramped up to as much as 85 mph while Good ran from police, though, supervisors warned the officers several times to break off the chase if things got too dangerous.

"Speeds are 85 on this road. Back it off; discontinue," area supervisor Sgt. Craig Dickinson, in Unit 118, called. "I'll take the lead up here; I know where he lives."

Jones responded: "18, I didn't copy. Did you say discontinue?"

Dickinson figured Good was heading back home. "Is it getting too dangerous up there?" he asked. "If it gets excessive up here, if it gets too dangerous, just back it down."

Jones replied that he thought it was safe enough to continue, and the chase went on.

Good did try to go back to his trailer, peeling off W.Va. 114 onto Mill Creek Road, but with officers hot behind him, he quickly changed his mind, turned around and raced back onto W.Va. 114 headed north toward Pinch and Quick.

The maneuvering left Patrolman Owen Morris, in Car 103, second in line behind Jones as the chase continued toward the Pinch-Quick split on W.Va. 114. Dickinson radioed that he thought he had damaged one of Good's tires with a tire spike strip, but couldn't be sure. At any rate, Good had slowed to around 60 mph as he headed right on Quick Road.

Jones soon radioed that Light was throwing things out of the passenger-side window at his cruiser. First, he said, she threw a bottle.

"Get ready!" he warned other officers. "They're getting ready to throw a toolbox out!"

Good swerved into a parking lot on Quick Road, swung around and ended up pointing back toward the road. Jones screeched to a stop and got out of his cruiser.

Three other cars then came roaring up, blocking Good's path. According to police, Good slammed his truck into the cruisers several times. The officers, believing their lives were in danger, opened fire on the truck, killing Good. Jones also was shot and killed.

The gunshots are not on the recordings of the radio traffic released Friday. The first inkling of trouble came with an officer's frantic call of "Shots fired! Shots fired!" at 1:07 a.m.

Police soon sensed that something was wrong.

"103 to 107," Morris called.

"103 to '07..."

Jones didn't answer.

Johnson called Morris to ask if an officer was injured. Police then discovered Jones had been hit.

"103 to Metro, we've got an officer down!" a frantic Morris radioed at 1:10 a.m. "Our officer is down! 103 [to] Metro! Officer down!"

As a medical helicopter was called, Burford tried to save Jones' life. "Can I perform CPR on a chest wound, or will it make it worse?" he asked desperately over the radio. He asked the question again before he was given permission to try the lifesaving procedure.

It was too late, though. Jones, as well as Good, was dead.

Reach Rusty Marks at rustyma...@wvgazette.com or 304-348-1215.