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“You guys are trying to kill me and I’m going to kill everybody on the campus,” Dickens told a Highway Patrol sergeant who repeatedly asked for more information. “Do you want a whole bunch of people to die in a few minutes?”
After being contacted by this newsroom, West Virginia University Police Department officials called Ohio Highway Patrol to request more information about the incident. WVU Police Capt. Danny Camden said Ohio troopers reassured him Dickens was not a threat to the Morgantown, W.Va., school.
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The rambling 24-minute 911 call appears to have been placed during Dickens’ drive on Interstate 70 as troopers attempted to locate him, though Dickens claimed he was in Cleveland. He also told troopers he had “all the information” in a Dayton drug bust and claimed he recently testified before a grand jury.
Dickens additionally claimed he was “Chuck Dickens Sr.” and said he was born in “1960-something.”
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The Dayton Daily News and WHIO obtained the call from OSP using Ohio’s public records law. Troopers have not told this newsroom if Dickens was found armed.
Dickens died in a drainage culvert in Belmont County, near West Virginia, after sideswiping another vehicle on Interstate 70 and fleeing from his moving car. A toxicology screen and medical examination will take several weeks to complete, a county coroner official said.
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