A man who rammed an El Paso County patrol car ultimately shot and killed himself early late Thursday night after a chase with different law enforcement agencies, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said.

The name of the man who shot himself has not been released.

After successive chases, the suspect drove over stop sticks and a Colorado State Patrol trooper used a tactical crash maneuver to stop the suspect, said Trooper Josh Lewis.

An El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy tried to pull the suspect over on a traffic violation when the suspect slammed his car into the deputy’s patrol car, according to a Colorado Springs Gazette report.

The deputy started chasing the suspect around 10:40 p.m., but discontinued the chase after it became too dangerous, the newspaper reported.

As troopers approached the vehicle, the driver shot and killed himself inside the car, the report says.

Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, kmitchell@denverpost.com or @kirkmitchell or denverpost.com/coldcases