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Cleveland police confirm its accident investigation unit was called for a chase involving Parma officers that ended in a serious crash. It happened around 2 p.m. Thursday in the 4300 block of Pearl Road in Old Brooklyn.

Officials told 3News two people were taken to the hospital, one from each car involved. Parma authorities later confirmed Monday that the suspect, 30-year-old Columbus native Kenneth James Lemons, had died at MetroHealth Medical Center from his injuries.

According to Parma police, officers in a marked cruiser first saw Lemons' black Ford Fusion speeding eastbound on Brookpark Road near West 33rd Street at almost 100 miles per hour. The officers followed the car at "quite a distance behind" before discovering Lemons had crashed head-on into a silver Chevrolet Traverse on Pearl Road around Woburn Avenue in Cleveland.

"I was standing and I see the black car speeding down," 12-year-old Michael Pissos, who lives nearby and saw the whole thing happen, said. "It hits the white car, the white car spins out, it crashes, then I see it on fire."