Skylar Williams was 20 and a student at Ohio State University’s Mansfield campus when she was abducted at gunpoint from the campus parking lot. The abduction followed a history of domestic disputes between Williams and her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend Ty’rell Pounds, including prior allegations of sexual assault, stalking, and domestic violence. Williams had reportedly ended the relationship months earlier and had complained to law enforcement; no civil protection order was filed.

A witness at a Gallatin County gas station called 911 after seeing Williams being forced into a vehicle, prompting a multi-county police pursuit that ended on an exit ramp off Interstate 71 in Oldham County. A Kentucky State Police trooper approached the vehicle; a gunshot was heard from inside, the trooper fired, striking Pounds, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, and Pounds died at the scene. Williams also sustained a fatal gunshot wound; investigators later confirmed the bullet that killed her was fired from Pounds’s weapon. Williams was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital and pronounced dead. Their infant child was found safe with family members.

Are there details about the early reports of abuse or the pursuit that anyone can add?