OCALA, FL (352today.com) – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has released dashcam footage of the pursuit of a pickup truck driver that plowed through an Ocala business on New Year’s Eve.

The video sheds light on what happened leading up to a crash that killed the pickup truck driver.

MCSO says a deputy attempted to pull over the driver just before midnight on New Year’s Eve because the vehicle matched the description given by deputies investigating a domestic violence call.

The sheriff’s office released the dashcam video at 352today’s request. It lasts three minutes and 35 seconds.

The Pursuit
In it, you can see the deputy turns on his lights to attempt the traffic stop.

The driver does not stop and instead speeds up in an apparent attempt to get away.

The deputy pursues the driver down 17th Street in Ocala now with his lights flashing and siren wailing.

At almost one minute and thirty seconds into the chase, the driver brakes and then turns right into the path of the deputy. The collision happened at the entrance to Clyatt Park. The pickup truck narrowly misses crashing into the park sign.

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“Man he just ran into me,” the deputy tells dispatch. “He’s back mobile.”

The driver takes off heading in the opposite direction they had just come from.

About three minutes into the pursuit, the video shows the deputy’s tire comes off from the earlier collision and he can continue the chase. Courtesy: MCSO

The deputy warns dispatch that his patrol unit is damaged and may not make it. “My car may be 10-7. I may have to drop out if you’ve got another unit close,” the deputy informs dispatch.

A few moments later, the pickup driver uses his turn signal to indicate a left turn onto 22nd Avenue.

“He’s going to be northbound,” updates the deputy.

Seconds later, the deputy again warns dispatch that his patrol car may not be drivable much longer.

On 22nd Avenue, the video shows the pickup driver blowing through multiple stop signs.

Just over three minutes into the video, you can see a tire comes off the deputy’s patrol car.

“My car’s 10-7. I’m at the 400 block. He’s still northbound,” said the deputy to dispatch.

The Crash
Roughly a quarter mile later, the pickup truck driver plows into an office building at 2161 E. Fort King Street.

From here, the Ocala Police Department (OPD) picks up. The officer says when he got to the intersection of East Fort King Street and Southeast 22nd Avenue, a man pointed him to the large hole in the building.”

The driver crashed into the office building that houses an Edward Jones financial advisor and Berkshire Hathaway Real Estate office. Courtesy: OPD
The officer who first arrived on the scene says he couldn’t immediately tell the condition of the driver due to the wreckage from the building. Courtesy: OPD
The officer says he went around to the other side of the building and that’s when he could tell the driver was dead. Courtesy: OPD

The office building houses both Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Realty and an Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

“I drew my agency issued firearm and issued commands for the driver to exit the vehicle,” said the deputy in an incident report. “Garnering no response, I attempted to look in the vehicle and was unable to observe any
occupants (due to the position of the vehicle, the damage, and the window tint).”

The officer says he couldn’t get much closer to the vehicle due to the walls blocking the vehicle in. So, he states he went to the other side of the building and that’s where he saw the vehicle had come all the way through the building. In the report he states he saw a man “slumped over, with his head through the shattered windshield” and was dead on the scene.

Police identified the deceased driver as 36-year-old Kyle Last.

A check of the Marion County jail records shows Last was booked into the jail in March of 2022 on a domestic battery charge.

MCSO says the deputy tried to pull over Kyle Last on New Year’s Eve because his vehicle matched the description in a domestic violence case from earlier in the evening. Records show he had been booked into the Marion County Jail in 2022 on a domestic battery charge.