He got into a Chevrolet Avalanche in the garage and drove it out through the door, St. John said. Officers continued the chase.

The pursuit went up to Rimrock Road and then south on Shiloh Road in the wrong lane, St. John said. Police got McElmury to drive over spike strips at the Grand Avenue intersection. But he kept going and drove at two vehicles, trying to get them to stop. The second vehicle did.

“He gets out of the Avalanche and into the passenger side of the stopped car and forced that driver out at gunpoint," St. John said. "That was a Chevy Suburban.”

The pursuit continued onto Interstate 90, and police again used spike strips at the North 27th Street exit. McElmury continued and took the Lockwood exit.

At the Town Pump gas station near that exit, St. John said McElmury tried and failed to steal one car before moving onto another car. The latter was a Nissan Pathfinder owned by a woman who was pumping gas.

The pursuit then went back into Billings on Main Street. There, MHP troopers and sheriff's deputies joined as the chase went onto U.S. 87 toward Roundup.

Then McElmury tried to turn onto Doyle Road, about eight miles north of town.