KALAMAZOO --

Dash cam video taken from a Kalamazoo Public Safety cruiser Wednesday afternoon shows one officer nearly crushed between vehicles at the beginning of a

in Kalamazoo.

KPS Lt. David Boysen said Thursday that officer Nathan Garnaat suffered minor injuries to his knees after the Cadillac Escalade passenger he and other officers were trying to subdue took control of the vehicle and sped off, hitting a police vehicle and nearly crushing Garnaat in the process.

"It's a miracle that's all it was," Boysen said of Garnaat's injuries.

In the video, KPS Sgt. William Moore can be seen following the Escalade as he waits for backup before pulling him over. Boysen said Moore had recognized the passenger in the vehicle as Eugune Marr, a fugitive wanted on multiple warrants, including for resisting/obstructing police.

Moore pulls Marr and the female driver of the vehicle over at the intersection of West Michigan Avenue and Academy Street shortly after 3 p.m.

"I think it's him," he says to the dispatcher, noting something about fighting going on in the vehicle before joining another officer at the driver's side door.

Boysen said that as officers stopped the vehicle, Marr was climbing on top of the female driver to try and put it in gear and escape. He said the driver -- who later told officers that she was purchasing drugs from Marr -- is considered a victim in the case.

"She wanted to stop; he was yelling at her to go," Boysen said.

A taser was initially used to try and subdue Marr, Boysen said, but one probe missed its target and the taser wasn't effective.

In the dash cam video, as two police cars are parked in front of the Escalade and a third officer joins the struggle at the driver's side door, the dispatcher on Moore's radio can be heard saying, "You almost done with him?"

Seconds later, the Escalade surges forward, dragging officer Garnaat a short distance and nearly pinning him between the side of the Escalade and a police cruiser. The vehicle jumps a curb, drives around the cruisers and takes off west down Academy Street with officers in pursuit.

Boysen said Marr quickly kicked the driver out of the vehicle and she was run over but suffered no major injuries.

Marr proceeded at high speeds toward West Main and then throughout the city until police called off the chase, Boysen said.

"Based on the high rate of speed and danger to the public we backed off the pursuit," he said. "And we lost sight of him after that."

The Escalade was later found abandoned on Dearborn Avenue near Cooper Avenue on the east side of Kalamazoo, Boysen said. A Dodge Durango believed to have picked Marr up was traced to a residence in the 700 block of Hibbard Avenue, where suspects believed to have aided Marr were identified and one female was arrested, he said.

Police say they're looking for Marr, who is still at large, on charges including car jacking, assault on a police officer causing injury and fleeing/eluding police, in addition to numerous outstanding warrants.

He is described as a 21-year-old black male, about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighing 145 pounds.

Anyone that witnessed the incident or has information about Marr's whereabouts is encouraged to contact Kalamazoo Public Safety at 337-8994 or Silent Observer at 343-2100 or

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Simon A. Thalmann is a public safety reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Contact him at sthalman@mlive.com or at 269-350-0708. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.