After being chase by the police, the father of a missing girl was shot and killed in Northern California on Monday. Report says that this man, Matthew Graham, was shot dead in Dunsmuir around 8:00 in morning after police traced a car he had stolen.
Graham, 23, became a person of interest after giving an inconsistent statement to the investigators. He reported the disappearance of his 6 month old daughter, Ember from his Happy Valley home on July 2nd.
Authorities recovered a surveillance video that showed Graham taking his child to a convenience store at the night of disappearance. He told the officers that he then drove back to home with the baby, but the footage shows he went exactly opposite direction. Officers also reported that Graham didn’t show remorse for his daughter’s disappearance and refused to take a lie detector test.
After his daughter’s disappearance, Graham had been booked into jail in an unrelated felony probation violation. He was released and ordered to check in with his probation officer daily before he fled.
Siskiyou County Sheriff’s department said that Graham stole Prado couple’s car from their Shasta Lake home and that he was shot while fleeing with the car.
Report says Graham excited the vehicle, holed up in a nearby garage and was shot after a chaotic gunfire exchange.
In addition, Graham has been accused for stealing a semi-automatic gun from his mother on Saturday when he heard that the search for his daughter had turned up a possible lead. After being seen at a Lake Shasta convenience store, he turned up at Prado’s house a few miles away on Monday morning.
As Prado went outside early in the morning to fetch newspaper, he noticed the gate to his backward was open. He noticed that cushions were missing from Patio furniture. Prado said it appeared as Graham used the cushions as a bed and slept in a side yard.
Graham then kept Prado’s wife at gunpoint and retrieved the car keys. He warned Prado not to call police before driving away.
Later police traced the car through its navigation system and found it 48 miles north of Dunsmuir. Soon Prado called 911 and before long, the authorities used various tracking techniques to track down the car. It was not before an hour later that Siskiyou sheriff reported shooting the stolen car’s driver, though the name was hidden for several hours.
